subshell bug?

[Joe Koenig <jko gmx de>]

I've encountered this behaviour 2 days ago for the first time.
When starting mc (from xterm/rxvt) it hangs for several (>10) seconds.

My reaserch always pointed to some obcsure subshell handling in mc. And
I just noticed:

 $ mc > scratch
   subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for
   device

IIRC the temporary workaround would be something like
chmod 666 /dev/tty
As I'm quite reluctant to do this, I'd like to know fix this.


BTW, is this the official FAQ
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/mc/mc/FAQ
?  Cause it's down since 2 days.



 $ mc -V
   GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0
   Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, undelfs
   With builtin Editor
   Using included S-Lang library with terminfo database
   With subshell support as default
   With support for background operations
   With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
   With internationalization support
   With multiple codepages support