On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Jon wrote:
Package: libncurses5 Version: 5.8-1 Severity: importantThe 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? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
