Hello Pavel, Monday, August 19, 2002, 3:39:01 AM, you wrote: PR> Hello! >> Since the subshell on Cygwin would not work on all versions of the dll >> reliable I was thinking if I should compile MC with subshell support >> enabled and add some runtime check which would determine the dll version >> and disable subshell if necessary. Would you accept such a change ? PR> It depends on how intrusive it is. I would prefer to check for bugs, not PR> for versions. I know, it can be hard to check how signals from the child PR> are processed. You can always keep that patch in the Cygwin port tree, or PR> whatever it's called. MC should not become a library of workarounds. Ok... I'm just sending it and you decide :) And you're right - I can apply it myself when releasing the Cygwin package. PR> By the way, there is one more bug partly related to subshell on Cygwin. PR> MC thinks that the Cygwin terminal is "dumb", i.e. that it doesn't save PR> the text behind panels. I noticed this and I'll see what happens.
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