Hello, On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello, > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > > > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > >>Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? > > > > > > Because using the subshell leaves stale subshell processes and each > > > time I start to debug this problem I get nowhere due to lack of time. > > > > I didn't notice this problem. Are you sure it's still there? > > Yes. I've just verified it - MC from ssh session to Cygwin machine and > MC from withing rxvt (non-X) both leave stale shells. Yesterday I've submitted a patch to the Cygwin dll which fixes the stale subshell problem. It will be available in the next official Cygwin release - in the meantime you can try a snapshot built after August 17. Once an official Cygwin is out I'll update the MC package to have the subshell enabled by default. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/