On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:21:34PM -0500, Don Wilburn wrote: > Dear OpenBSD, > > I recently upgraded from version 7.4 to 7.5. This broke the old cribbage > game. This is included with OpenBSD, if you choose to install the games. > > I'm not a programmer, but I promise you this happened because ncurses was > updated from version 5.7 to 6.4
...a quick look at the source shows that it's mixing stdio, direct reads from file-descriptor 0 and curses. That could have been fixed (in the BSD games) when ncurses changed to separate buffering: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20120825 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.0.html#h3-lib-setbuf > know OpenBSD developers have really important things to maintain. If > someone could spare some time for this little bug, I'd be happy. Maybe it > could be delegated to a student? :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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