[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15

Fri Nov 20 22:42:00 GMT 2009

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Eric Backus wrote:
>> I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput. The program runs 
>> successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non-
>> existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability.
>>>> $ tput sgr0
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped) <---- this is wrong
>> $ tput -V
>> ncurses 5.7.20091024 <---- OK, latest version
>> $ tput garbage
>> tput: unknown terminfo capability 'garbage' <---- OK, this is correct
>> $ type tput
>> tput is hashed (/bin/tput)
>>>> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version.

Should be fixed in ncurses-5.7-16.
--
Chuck
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