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adamyg / mcwin32

Midnight Commander for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcwin32/
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Background jobs #84

Open fekir opened 3 months ago

fekir commented 3 months ago

mcwin32 does not seem to support background jobs

Copy dialog of mcwin:

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Copy dialog of mc

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Note that the "Background" button is missing.

Also Ctrl+x j should open the Background Jobs dialog

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but on mcwin32 this key combo does nothing.

Background jobs are useful when copying will take a while, and you want to use mc in the meantime, without opening a new instance.

Is the absence of background jobs something more of an oversight, something that can be included in a future release, or are there technical limitations that made it too hard to implement?

adamyg commented 3 months ago

ENABLE_BACKGROUND is not currently set. May consider yet major effort as standard implementation assumes fork() semantics. An alternative method would be required, is the effort deserving?