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Re: clear.exe stackdump
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:54:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: clear.exe stackdump
- References: <49ACD44C.9080702@pobox.com>
David Arnstein wrote:
> Just today, I noticed that /usr/bin/clear will stack dump. This occurs
> in both mintty and rxvt.
>
> If I execute bash from the Windows "DOS box," I get this:
> 4 [main] clear 13352 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while
> dumping state
> (probably corrupted stack)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Output from cygcheck -s -v -r attached.
>
Yep, it's a foul-up in ncurses. I inadvisedly took an upstream patch
without thoroughly testing it.
Stay tuned for an updated ncurses package.
--
Chuck
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