Re: parsing bug

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Aaron Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> 
> > just for curiosity, I'll see where the core dump happens (perhaps an
> > unchecked malloc - or more likely, overflowing the 4k buffer used for
> > terminfo entries), but it shouldn't be reading a character device anyway.
> 
> Well, clearly the bug is in the library and should be fixed there, not in
> the tic and captoinfo programs themselves. Right?

both, actually.  But the library is where we'll fix the problem you
reported (I should also fix the program to do the expected thing and
complain that the input is not a file).

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