Sub-shell (ctrl-o) behavior

[GiveMeFish Lists]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>Hello,
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>On Thu, 19 May 2005, GiveMeFish Lists wrote:
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>>Under cygwin and when I telnet to a FreeBSD server, I ctrl-o and can
>>only see the results of the previous command.  I can't, for example,
>>type in another command.  As soon as I enter another keystroe, I am
>>immediately returned to the MC interface.
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>The subshell feature is disabled by default on Cygwin since it leaves
>stale shell processes. I've be plannig to look into this for a long
>time but I don't have time to properly debug the issue and it is not a
>simple one really. Anyway, if you cannot be bothered by the fact that
>subshells are left behind, you can enable the subshell by passing the '-U'
>command line switch to mc .
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Pavel,

this seems to work for me.  Thanks.

However, I am unclear what is meant by "it leaves stale shell 
processes".  Are there any potential serious consequences?

Thanks,
Matt.