I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that the sub-shell started by Midnight Commander is apparently freezing.
I normally set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disable the hint bar, and have the command bar visible. When mc starts a Bash prompt should appear in the command bar but since the update it does not. I've tried downgrading mc but that did not help. I have found that mc is responsive until a directory change is called or an external command is attempted from the command bar. I have found via Windows Task Manager that the 'bash.exe' process instantly jumps to 99% CPU usage. Once that process is killed mc functionality returns (I didn't test all functions) although the command bar is dead and no external commands can be run. I deleted all of mc's configuration from my Cygwin user's home directory and that did not change any behavior, so I suspect a Bash issue. I've not tried downgrading Bash to the 3.x version, however. I haven't found this mentioned anywhere else, so I'm asking here. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
