Re: dialog crash in ncurses/tinfo/getenv_num.c

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 07:50:39PM +0000, Andrea Gilbert wrote:
> Dear address@hidden
> 
> Hi - hope there is a quick answer to this...

sorry - no quick answer.  I don't recall a recent bug report for
the window-resizing feature.  RHEL6 has ncurses 5.7

> We are trying to build latest version of dialog (dialog-1.3.20160126.tgz) on 
> RHEL67.
> We were hoping this would fix a crash we occasionally see in the native RHEL6 
> dialog binary.
> 
> The source builds just fine, and runs perfectly, except it always crashes 
> when the putty/console window running dialog resizes. Running under gdb we 
> see this ...
> 
> _nc_getenv_num (name=0x7f7a0e7f46e4 "LINES") at 
> ../../ncurses/tinfo/getenv_num.c:43
> 43      {
> 44          char *dst = 0;
> 45          char *src = getenv(name);
> __unsetenv (name=0x7ffed40a12fc "") at setenv.c:344
> 344       UNLOCK;
> Program exited with code 0377.
> 
> Is this something anyone has seen before? Is it something we can patch dialog 
> to work-around?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Andrea Gilbert
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> Andrea Gilbert
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