From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 24 23:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (unknown [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E853D37B410 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8P6o1A70436; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109250650.f8P6o1A70436@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: misc/30778: termcap problem with wyse-60 terminal Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/30778; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/30778: termcap problem with wyse-60 terminal Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:41:00 +0300 On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:22:43AM +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > [...] > > For yet unknown reason, it doesn't (sometimes) understand the escaped > > colon (``:'') character embedded into the value. For "wy60-25", I've > > underlined the offendind symbols: > [...] > > Thanks a lot for your investigation! > > So we've got two unrelated errors then, one was mismatching as/ae in > termcap (which has been taken care of for the wyse terminals), and > the other an ncurses hickup on escaped colons. > Nope, only the second. "ae" is already put as the first entry for "wy60", I just did not notice it. :-) > > The bug is somewhere in contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo. > > I'll see if I can spot it. Don't expect too much, though; the topic > is new to me. > > Could the same error happen for the reading of other, similar > databases, such as login.conf or printcap? They are built similarly, > so I assume code sharing has happened. > No, but there are other terminals that are vulnerable to this. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message