Re: rxvt: `info' dumpes core when rxvt is resized

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

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@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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