From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 6 03:01:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA12639 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 03:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unique.usn.blaze.net.au (unique.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA12627 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 03:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by unique.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00890; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 20:00:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 20:00:57 +1000 From: David Nugent To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Midnight Commander Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :-)). 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). Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/