R: Why mc start without subshell by default?

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Mer 3/11/10, SZABO Gergely  ha scritto:

> Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri
> <at> yahoo.it> writes:
> 
> > 
> > --- Mer 3/11/10, Oleksandr Gavenko  ha scritto:
> > 
> > > I can turn on subshell by:
> > > 
> > >   $ mc -U
> > > 
> > > This is useful by default or I miss something?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > It is useful but there is one problem on cygwin.
> > When you close mc the subshell will not exit, so you
> will finish
> > with a "zombie" bash shell running.
> > 
> > Marco
> > 
> > 
> 
> I thought mc's lacking subshell support is a hard fact of
> life in Cygwin, until
> the -U option was pointed out here. It's a huge
> improvement.
> 
> It's quite easy to kill the zombie subshells.
> Put a line into /etc/crontab (assuming you're running
> cron):
> 
> */6 * * * * SYSTEM ps -a | sed -n 's/I 
> *\([0-9][0-9]*\)  *1  *..*bash$/\1/p' |
> xargs kill -KILL
> 
> This will kill all bash processes every 6 minutes, who are
> waiting for input in
> the background (I) and whose parent process (PPID) is 1
> (not a terminal, not mc).
> 
> Best regards
> Gergely
> 

That is a workaround, it will be better if 
Pavel release a mc cygwin package without
this problem...

mc-4.6.1 is 22 months old and eventually 4.7.0.x works
better.

Regards
Marco




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