Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:16:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>, pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH Message-ID: <permail-2009102312165080e26a0b0000460c-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <20091023135024.377bcfa6@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn schrieb am 2009-10-23: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:58:43 +0400 > pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/10/23 Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>: > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best > > > <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > >> hi everyone, > > >> together with hugh mahon (the author of ee) i've been trying to > > >> fix a nasty > > >> bug in ee. for some reason ee exits (not crashes) and leaves the > > >> console > > >> corrupted when receiving SIGWINCH (`killall -SIGWINCH ee` should > > >> exit all > > >> running ee instances). > > > I noticed this the other day when working on a new 8.0-RC1 > > > system... > > > in my case I was using putty (Windows ssh client) to access the > > > system > > > and maximised the window I had ee running in, and noticed ee just > > > dumped me straight to the prompt. > > > I am wondering if this has anything to do with the new tty > > > subsystem > > > in 8.0, as this wasn't a problem I've experienced before under > > > 7.x... > > No, that's a regression appeared in (FreeBSD'ish? version of) ee > > 1.5.0. > SIGWINCH is handled in new_curse.c, but it's not being > compiled/linked. > --- > Gary Jennejohn i just tried building ee under linux without using new_curse.c and linking the executable against ncurses. running the binary is showing the same problems with SIGWINCH. so if this is in fact caused by a ncurses bug the bug appears in linux ncurses too. alex
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