Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 09:24:09 -0700 From: Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midnight Commander Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970406092409.009459e0@mantar.slip.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au>
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At 08:00 PM 4/6/97 +1000, David Nugent wrote: >I've verified this on two machines recently, but it seems that >at least since the lite2 merge, "mc" seems broken. It mostly >works, but is prone to hanging, and will *always* hang when >type ^O to get to the background/pty shell. I tried both the >pre-compiled port, then building it fresh from sources (not that >I expected this to make a difference, but this was the road of >Least Effort<tm> :-)). > >Before I waste a couple of hours looking into this, does anyone >have any ideas? According to ps, it seems to be hung in "sbwait". > >Yes, yes, "real programmers" don't need a wimpy shell, but mc >does some particular tasks very neatly and takes a lot less time >to type than a multiline commandline (namely renaming using >shell patterns). The only way i can get it to not hang is to build it manually with these args. configure --without-subshell then make it works fine then Manfred |==============================| | mantar@netcom.com | | Ph. (415) 681-6235 | |==============================|
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