savannah: Bad shell activity detection

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Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/8
Reporter	luk

Original: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?11982

Submitted by:	Lukas Jelinek <luk>	Submitted on:	Mon 14 Feb 2005 09:30:32 AM UTC
Category:	Subshell	Severity:	3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	4.5.55	Operating System:	GNU/Linux

Original submission:

MC sometimes reject to run a program due to "shell activity", but 
the subshell does currently nothing (no child process executed).

Comment 1 by Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov> at Tue 15 Feb 2005 03:09:17 PM UTC:

This is a known problem. As a workaround you can hit the 'Enter' key
 and then execute the command.

Comment 2 by Anonymous at Tue 15 Feb 2005 10:17:54 PM UTC:

Yes, this may be a known problem, but ít is now solved. So what?!

Comment 3 by Anonymous at Tue 15 Feb 2005 10:19:05 PM UTC:

Sorry, wanted to say "but it is NOT now solved"...

Comment 4 by Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov> at Wed 16 Feb 2005 01:43:27 PM UTC:

Correct. It is not solved, but we are aware of the problem and 
eventually it will be fixed in the near future. This is particulary 
nasty bug and we haven't come up with a viable solution so far. You 
can see though that this issue and a possible fix have been 
discussed on the MC developers list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2004-November/msg00199.html

Unfortunately the solution wasn't good enough. So we wait for a 
better solution to show up.

[mc-butler]

Changed by slavazanko (@slavaz) on Dec 24, 2008 at 10:54 UTC (comment 1)

In 4.6.3 this partially fixed.

Busy shell now detected by last pressed key (Enter).
This don't good fix, I known. But it is less irritating than before

[mc-butler]

Changed by styx (@styx) on Feb 23, 2009 at 19:14 UTC (comment 2)

• Milestone set to 4.7

[mc-butler]

Changed by angel_il (@ilia-maslakov) on May 14, 2009 at 20:19 UTC (comment 3)

• Resolution set to duplicate
• Status changed from new to closed

see #213

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Changed by ossi (@ossilator) on Jan 11, 2014 at 15:31 UTC (comment 4)

• Reporter changed from slavazanko to luk
• Description edited
• Branch state set to no branch