Status of MC

[Pavel Tsekov]

Hello Pavel,

Monday, August 19, 2002, 3:39:01 AM, you wrote:

PR> Hello!

>> Since the subshell on Cygwin would not work on all versions of the dll
>> reliable I was thinking if I should compile MC with subshell support
>> enabled and add some runtime check which would determine the dll version
>> and disable subshell if necessary. Would you accept such a change ?

PR> It depends on how intrusive it is.  I would prefer to check for bugs, not 
PR> for versions.  I know, it can be hard to check how signals from the child 
PR> are processed.  You can always keep that patch in the Cygwin port tree, or 
PR> whatever it's called.  MC should not become a library of workarounds.

Ok...  I'm just sending it and you decide :) And you're right - I can apply it
myself when releasing the Cygwin package.

PR> By the way, there is one more bug partly related to subshell on Cygwin.
PR> MC thinks that the Cygwin terminal is "dumb", i.e. that it doesn't save
PR> the text behind panels.

I noticed this and I'll see what happens.
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