Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/21/03:19:52
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Franz Haeuslschmid wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I lately observe that `info' when invoked within `rxvt' happens to fail
>>due to a segmentation fault.
>>[snip]
>>The way to reproduce this behaviour on my
>>system is to start `rxvt' and opening the info documentation for info:
>>
>> haeuslsc AT pan ~
>> $ info info
>>
>>When I now try to resize the window height of `rxvt' (it doesn't
>>matter, whether I want to increment or decrement the size), `info'
>>quits stating that
>>
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>>happened.
>
>
> I can confirm this. It also happens in an xterm, and in the regular
> console with CYGWIN=tty. Looks like a bug in SIGWINCH handler in info.
> FWIW, the actual info page doesn't matter -- just typing "info" is enough.
> Since I snipped the cygcheck output, "info --version" shows "info (GNU
> texinfo) 4.8".
>
> Strace doesn't show anything useful (IMO), but I could attach the tail end
> of it (after the SIGWINCH) if anyone's interested.
I cannot reproduce it.
BTW, I use info2html most of the time: http://info2html.sourceforge.net/
to browse the info docs with a webbrowser, much more the way I like
to read documentation.
Gerrit
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