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Re: midnight commander start new bash proccess after exit
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at gmx dot net>
- To: Tihomir Ganev <jackripper2600 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:57:54 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: midnight commander start new bash proccess after exit
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tihomir Ganev wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> > The problem is that after start mc(midnight commander)
> > and when i
> > exit from it.When i exit new bash shell is start.
> > So when i start and quit 5 times MC in memory reside 6
> > bash
> > proccess.
>
> This is known issue - I'm aware of it an plan to debug it in the
> weekend.
>
> MC doesn't actually start a new shell on exit, but starts the subshell
> on startup and for some reason it fails to control it properly, so the
> subshell never dies.
>
> To fix you problem temorarily start mc like that:
>
> mc -u
>
> >From mc --help output:
> -u, --nosubshell Disables subshell support
>
> This way MC won't leave any subshells around.
Or better upgrade to mc-4.6.0-2. Should be available on mirrors in several
hours.
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