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To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
From: Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Midnight Commander
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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
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