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: <3B2E8402.4CB90B8D@tuwien.ac.at> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:43:14 +0200 From: Alois Steindl X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: de-AT,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.1.8: Too large entry in termcap file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:12:01PM +0200, Alois Steindl wrote: > >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 > > In that case, linux is non-compliant too. I believe that the 1024 is > supposed to include the null byte. Mathematically, 1042 is strictly larger than 1024. cygwin returns 1038 rather than 1034. > However, the termcap entry has been in this state for a long time with > very few (if any) bug reports prior to this. > > I suggested that you might want to provide a patch if you can find > something which could be nuked from the termcap entry. If that is not > something that you are willing to do, then the other alternative is to > modify your program. > I am already quite happy with "my" program (actually, it is from the "net"): I got rid of termcap. Could you please at least correct the manual page to reflect your changes? > If I see a bunch of people reporting this problem then maybe I'll look > into changing it. Until then, since it has been like this for a year or > so, I don't see any urgency. We have other problems to deal with for > now. > > cgf Certainly a funny and interesting method to deal with problems. Wasn't the Ariane V failure caused by a similar attitude? (No problems until today, we keep everything as is). But I am quite sure: That problem will not bite _me_ again. I had hoped to avoid that for other users also. Best regards Alois -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple