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Re: TERMCAP problem.

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: koen.van_hoof@xxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: TERMCAP problem.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:54:19 +0000
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> I've unset TGETENT_ACCEPTS_NULL.
> 
> $ export TERMCAP=abc
> $ ./zhs
> zsh: 26119 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./zsh
> $ ddd ./zsh core
> 
> And the backtrace is
> #0  0xef5a4274 in strcmp () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1  0x126c04 in tgetent (bp=0x14d018 "", name=0x15cae8 "xterm") at termcap.c:
> 469
...

The next thing to try is Andrej's other point: increase the declared size
of termbuf until it doesn't crash any more (or increase it to 65536 and
start halving it).  If that works, we'll just have to add a few kb to the
shell to make sure (or use curses).

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070

Follow-Ups:
- RE: TERMCAP problem.
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow

References:
- Re: TERMCAP problem.
  - From: koen van hoof

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