From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; compaq) Description of problem: Term::Readkey v2.21 Installed the tar ball from CPAN. Window Mgr : KDE (but same problem when running in level 3 ... When using ReadKey Mode 4 (RAW), the software doesn't detect any key stroke anymore. Same problem with mode 3 ... This used to work on RedHat 7.3 with same version of Term::ReadKey. Contacted the maintainer of the software, who indicates that this is a bug in ReadHat 8 as the same software runs perfectly well on other distributions... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Term::Readkey v2.21 from CPAN 2.Run the little program : use Term::ReadKey; ReadMode 4; # Turn off controls keys while (not defined ($key = ReadKey(-1)) { # No key yet } print "Get key $key\n"; ReadMode 0; # Reset tty mode before exiting Actual Results: The program loops forever, as no key is detected. Expected Results: program should print the depressed key. Additional info:
Closing due to lack of activity and likely fixed in modern perl. If this is still an issue in RHEL4, FC3 or FC4 please open a new bug with new test information and exact versions of packages.