Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B2DD3F1.60805@mch2pc28.mechanik.tuwien.ac.at> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:12:01 +0200 From: Alois Steindl Reply-To: Alois.Steindl+e325 AT tuwien DOT ac DOT at Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Technische Mechanik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: * Re: 1.1.8: Too large entry in termcap file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:29:36 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Looking at the entry that is in termcap for linux, I don't see any way > around this. I did compare it against the entry from Red Hat and I see > that they just squeak in under 1024. > I get 1042 for linux and 1034 for cygwin > I compared the two and obviously the Cygwin version does have more "stuff" > but I don't think that any of it is obviously wrong. So, the trivial > fix for this is to increase the size of your buffer. I suspect that this > is what most applications who use termcap had already done years ago. > the problem is, that the length 1024 is cited in the man page. Violating this constrained _is_ a bug and not "my alleged cygwin problem", as you stated in your email. As I wrote in my first message, the problem disappears if I increase this buffer or avoid termcap at all. Increasing the limit silently (quite likely accidently) can break a lot of existing programs - like e.g. fweb - , even if it were documented in the man page. Buffer overflow is a major source of programming problems. Let's hope that this kind of errors is not growing in the Red Hat programs, since I use Linux Red Hat much more frequently than cygwin. > > Sorry, no. The whole point of mailing lists like cygwin, gdb, gcc, > linux-kernel, etc. is for people to communicate with each other about > problems. I work at Red Hat. We're an open source company. I work > with *a lot* of free software developers. I am not aware of any of them > who desires personal email regarding their project when there is an > existing project mailing list. In fact, it is company policy that > discussions should be carried out in public. > There is a simple solution to avoid unwanted email: Set up a different mail account which just responds without insults (even multiple tries) and redirects or returns (maybe dismisses) the email and cite that account in the ChangeLog file. I use mainly Fortran and especially the very helpful people from Digital Fortran (nowadays Compaq) respond to every answer very quickly, providing solutions and frankly admit their bugs. I have _never_ got any response like yours. Maybe the impression, that there might be something wrong with termcap will start to sink in some time. By correcting it you wont help me much (I solved the problem locally before "waisting your patience") but maybe a lot of other people who use cygwin to compile and run programs which they find on the net. Alois -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Alois Steindl, Tel.: +43 (1) 58801 / 32558 Inst. for Mechanics II, Fax.: +43 (1) 58801 32598 Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10 Email: Alois.Steindl+E325 AT tuwien DOT ac DOT at ___________________________________________________________________________ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple