--- origsrc/mc-4.8.23/src/subshell/common.c	2019-06-16 13:49:31.000000000 -0400
+++ src/mc-4.8.23/src/subshell/common.c	2019-12-22 20:44:43.781884100 -0500
@@ -1071,10 +1071,10 @@ init_subshell (void)
                 return;
             }
 
-            /* Opening the FIFO as O_RDONLY or O_WRONLY causes deadlock */
+            /* Open the FIFO first as O_RDWR to avoid deadlock */
 
             if ((subshell_pipe[READ] = open (tcsh_fifo, O_RDWR)) == -1
-                || (subshell_pipe[WRITE] = open (tcsh_fifo, O_RDWR)) == -1)
+                || (subshell_pipe[WRITE] = open (tcsh_fifo, O_WRONLY)) == -1)
             {
                 fprintf (stderr, _("Cannot open named pipe %s\n"), tcsh_fifo);
                 perror (__FILE__ ": open");