steve@miduet.mifnet.gec-mi-ate.co.uk (Steve Lademann) (04/24/86)
There is a 'lurker' in the terminfo supplied with vanilla System V.2 which exhibits itself by causing a process using the keypad code in terminfo to occasionally core dump mysteriously. On editing in some debug information, it stops core dumping. This is due to a bad condition on a 'for' loop at line 111 (or thereabouts). The condition reads. for(i=0; SP->kp[i].keynum >= 0; i++) which causes it to whiz off through memory looking for a key which is numbered negatively, whereas the code marks the entry after the last key in the array as 0. The (obvious) cure is therefore for(i=0; SP->kp[i].keynum > 0; i++) ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Steve Lademann |Phone: 44 727 59292 x326 | |Marconi Instruments Ltd|UUCP : ...mcvax!ukc!hrc63!miduet!steve | |St. Albans |NRS : steve@uk.co.gec-mi-ate.mifnet | |Herts. UK | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |"The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect"| | |"those of my employer, and may not even reflect my own"| | -----------------------------------------------------------------