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RE: TERMCAP problem.

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <koen.van_hoof@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: TERMCAP problem.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:19:53 +0300
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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).
>

One more possibility is that your termcap entry is corrupted (or your system
does not like something in termcap built by screen). I am not sure if
TERMCAP=abc is valid termcap entry anyway.

-andrej

Follow-Ups:
- Re: TERMCAP problem.
  - From: koen van hoof

References:
- Re: TERMCAP problem.
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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