severity 617210 serious thanks On 2011-03-07 12:41 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Jon wrote: > >> Package: libncurses5 >> Version: 5.8-1 >> Severity: important >> >> >> The API for newwin() is documented as: >> >> Calling newwin creates and returns a pointer to a new window with the >> given number of lines and columns. The upper left-hand corner of the window >> is at line begin_y, column begin_x. If either nlines or ncols is >> zero, they default to LINES - begin_y and COLS - begin_x. A new full-screen >> win‐ >> dow is created by calling newwin(0,0,0,0). >> >> But starting with ncurses 5.8, ncurses/base/lib_newwin.c has the following >> code on line 144: >> >> if (begy < 0 || begx < 0 || num_lines <= 0 || num_columns <= 0) >> returnWin(0); >> >> This causes a call of newwin(0,0,0,0) to return an error. > > yes... I made the change because of a core dump (as called from > dialog, which assumed the window had rows/columns). > > Which applications are making newwin(0,0,0,0) calls? Newsbeuter does (via libstfl), segfaulting in the process because stfl does not expect this to return a null pointer: http://bugs.debian.org/616711. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
