Re: Crash in xterm-136 with unicode patch 0.7 (termcap)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:55:46AM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
 
> I believe that somewhere between main() is started and tgetent() is
> called, an xterm bug causes a static variable of libtermcap to be
> overwritten. How do I find whether and where this happens, if it happens

...more likely a bug in termcap (Red Hat made a patch to fix a buffer
overflow in tgetent a while back).  You should track down the original
code & their fix and simply debug it.

(ElectricFence would be useful too)

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