Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

[Seb.Th]

Le 14/05/2013 18:08, Nate Bargmann wrote :
> 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'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.

Same problem here with mc, freezing ten / twenty seconds on directories 
navigation and subshell call (crtl-O). Using mc with -u, --nosubshell 
option "fixes" the problem, but of course, ctrl+O is disabled.

lftp has same issues (freezing and high %CPU on bash.exe) while 
executing local commands (!ls, !cd, ...).

Reinstalling cygwin package from 1.7.18-1 to 1.7.17-1 restored a safe 
behaviour.





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