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Bug 68199

Summary: Call to time functions from a curses screen using the ncurses screen dump feature causes crash.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <donpa>
Component: ncursesAssignee: Eido Inoue <havill>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.1CC: dickey
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C program to compile with g++ -lncurses none

Description Need Real Name 2002-07-08 00:44:20 UTC 
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Description of problem:
A call to a function to get time/date from a curses screen where there is first
a call to scr_dump() will cause the program to core dump.  If the curses screen
does a getch() before the call to the time function the program will not crash. 
However, there are many occasions where one will need to set up a time/date
string without making a call to getch() first.  There is some kind of conflict
between the curses screen dump feature and the time functions.  This is a
problem for RH to solve.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a screen with curses control.
2. Do a screen dump (scr_dump(const char filename). (Do not do a getch() before
the screen dump.
3. Call a (void) function to set up a string containing the time and date.
4. The program will crash.
5. Have a call to restore(filename) after the call to the time function.
	

Actual Results:  Crash!

Expected Results:  Program should return from time fucntion and restore screen
as before dump.

Additional info:

Example program is avialable if you will send me your email address.
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-07-08 00:47:36 UTC 
Created attachment 64165 [details]
C program to compile with g++ -lncurses
Comment 2 Thomas E. Dickey 2003-01-11 19:42:24 UTC 
This is fixed in ncurses 5.3 (Redhat does not deliver ncurses 5.3).
Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2003-01-20 21:49:54 UTC 
marking as a duplicate of the "5.3 solves all problems" bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77585 ***
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:13 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.