Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:35:33 -0700 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ncurses/include curses.h.in src/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/trace lib_trace.c Message-ID: <20000523223533.A26457@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231644430.49900-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>; from Doug@gorean.org on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:49:00PM -0700 References: <20000523153625.A30373@freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231644430.49900-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:49:00PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > This problem has been known for well over a month. Attempting to > contact the ncurses author, and/or discussing your propsed fix on one of You describe exact situation I fear. Over a month (sic!) nobody does not commit any fix of this bug but does 'contacts', 'discussions' and 'sending letters'. Are we here just for talks? > For instance, another acceptable short term solution to fix bash > would be to comment out the trace() function temporarily, since it's only It is not acceptable. trace() is user name space function and can be used freely, it is not part of libtermcap interface. /bin/sh people already go this wrong way renaming trace() to sh_trace(). Really I don't understand why to fix application (moreover, lots of them) when the bug is in the library. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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