subshell output swallowed (patch)

[Pavel S. Shirshov]

Hello Egmont,

Monday, January 2, 2006, 11:20:34 PM, you wrote:

EK> When an external command is executed in mc with subshell support, quite
EK> often some characters of its output are swallowed. Maybe it's most noticable
EK> with the "ls" command in a directory where there are a lot of files and "ls"
EK> outputs them in more columns. Just launch a terminal emulator, start mc,
EK> press ^O so that the panels disappear, and run "ls" a several times. Sure
EK> you'll see some occasions when the columns are not lined up correctly.

EK> So, when "ls" exits, mc receives a sigchild, which interrupts the write call
EK> that transfers the output of ls from the subshell to its real output, but
EK> the interrupted call is not finished, in this particular case 47 bytes are
EK> skipped.

EK> See the attached patch which fixes this problem.

Applied. Thx.

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