subshell (ctrl-o) not working properly

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
>> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just cross-compiled mc for a Linux/mipsel/uClibc target.
>>>>
>>>> Everything runs fine, except the subshell (ctrl-o).
>>> You should run MC under a debugger then. Start tracing at init_subshell().
>>> Let us know about the results .
>>>
>>> P.S. Stracing might prove usefull too.
>> I made a strace available at http://wpkg.org/mc.strace.gz
>>
>> It's about 4 kB compressed, 80 kB when uncompressed.
> 
> The strace indicatest that subshell support is either not enabled at all
> or that for some reason subshell support has been disabled at runtime...
> There are several possible reasons that may lead to subshell support being
> disabled at runtime - the most plausible one being MC is not able to
> detect what kind of shell you are running. MC supports bash, zsh and tcsh.
> It tries to look for the absolute path to the user's shell in the SHELL
> environment variable and then in its password database entry.


It is compiled in:

# mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using included S-Lang library with terminfo database
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm


# echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       890007 Feb 16 16:51 /bin/bash


# cat /etc/passwd|grep root
root:encrypted_password:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

(this system has no /etc/shadow)

# /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.0(1)-release (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu)


So everything should be fine?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
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