Background jobs

[fekir]

mcwin32 does not seem to support background jobs

Copy dialog of mcwin:

Copy dialog of mc

Note that the "Background" button is missing.

Also Ctrl+x j should open the Background Jobs dialog

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]

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?