Bug 82898 - Mode 4 of function ReadKey broken in RedHat 8
Summary: Mode 4 of function ReadKey broken in RedHat 8
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl-TermReadKey
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Warren Togami
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-28 08:59 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-28 07:23:28 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-01-28 08:59:58 UTC
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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...



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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:

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2005-05-28 07:23:28 UTC
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.


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