I am on an embedded environment. Bash is available as a separate package, but huge in comparison with the built-in ash of BusyBox.
Disclaimer before I continue: I am *not* a C programmer. I can read a bit of C, but not develop anything meaningful other than copy, paste and modify existing code. So bear with me anyway, if you please. I looked into src/subshell.c and tried to figure out what happens there. I have started to add ash support, but MC seems to depend on PROMPT_COMMAND/precmd/fish_prompt, i.e. on a function or alias which is executed each time just before a prompt is printed. Ash does not have anything like that, AFAIK. If I understand correctly, using those pre-commands are MC's way of determining the cwd. I wonder why you do not just use something like pwd or $PWD, but OTOH I do not understand the difficulties of corresponding with the subshell. Anyway, in my case it would be absolutely fine to set a fixed value of PS1='\w\$ ' for the subshell and read the cwd from the prompt. In any case it would be better than not having the option of using ash as a subshell at all. Could anyone maybe provide me with a code snippet or a patch which shows me how to extract the cwd from the prompt assuming that PS1 has the value '\w\$ '? (BTW, '\$' will be evaluated to '$' or '#' in ash, depending on whether you are root or not.) Thank you so much. If I succeed in adding ash as a subshell, I will provide a (raw) patch for you to inspect and maybe refine and include upstream. Thanks in advance and kind regards -- Alexander Kriegisch _______________________________________________ mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel