On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:13:08AM +0200, Jens Carsten Hansen wrote:
> Hi, I use mc frequently ( also to edit textfiles, I'm not a vi guy ), but
> recently it stopped working.
> when I try to start it, the machine hangs for a few seconds, there is a lot of
> harddisk activity, then it exits with;
> /usr/bin/mc: fork: resource temporarily not available.
> I found out that the harddisk activity was due to a lot of files being created
> in /tmp, 50-100 or so.
> They all looked like this;
> mcXXXXX-YYYYYYYYYY
> with the X's being numbers starting at 20443, looking very much like a PID,
> and
> the Y's just looking like random numbers.
> I also noticed a process called queued running, which I do not think I have
> seen
> running before.
>
> I suspect this having to do with the fact that I'm running potato, and
> therefore
> having mc in version 4.5.38-1
>
> Can anyone tell me what the problem could be ?
Change line 4 in /usr/bin/mc
$ diff -u /usr/bin/mc{~,''}
--- /usr/bin/mc~ Fri Sep 10 15:02:15 1999
+++ /usr/bin/mc Mon Sep 13 12:57:30 1999
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/bash
MC=/tmp/mc$$-"$RANDOM"
-/usr/bin/mc -P "$@" > "$MC"
+/usr/bin/mc.real -P "$@" > "$MC"
cd "`cat $MC`"
rm "$MC"
unset MC;
Mirek
