Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

[Nate Bargmann]

I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a
software package I help maintain.  To be sure that a bug I was hitting
in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week
and since then I have found that the sub-shell started by Midnight
Commander is apparently freezing.

I normally set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disable the hint bar, and have
the command bar visible.  When mc starts a Bash prompt should appear in
the command bar but since the update it does not.  I've tried
downgrading mc but that did not help.  I have found that mc is
responsive until a directory change is called or an external command is
attempted from the command bar.  I have found via Windows Task Manager
that the 'bash.exe' process instantly jumps to 99% CPU usage.  Once that
process is killed mc functionality returns (I didn't test all functions)
although the command bar is dead and no external commands can be run.

I deleted all of mc's configuration from my Cygwin user's home directory
and that did not change any behavior, so I suspect a Bash issue.  I've
not tried downgrading Bash to the 3.x version, however.

I haven't found this mentioned anywhere else, so I'm asking here.

- Nate

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