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getch returning ENOENT

Bug #1549665 reported by Serge Hallyn
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Bug Description

The program 'sc' was recently recompiled (according to changelog) for ncurses6. Since that happened, its call to getch() (in lex.c:nmgetch() around line 680) returns -1 with errno ENOENT. The version in older releases properly waits for an input character.

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Hm, maybe this is a bug in the sc program after all. It seems to be calling notimeout(stdscr, TRUE). i don't know why it's doing that, or why it never seemed to do anything in older releases.

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote :

Likely sc was always wrong, and ncurses was fixed. Now it's sc's turn to play.

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20151128

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 1549665] Re: getch returning ENOENT

D'oh. Thanks, I'll patch sc.

Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
affects: ncurses (Ubuntu) → sc (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package sc - 7.16-4ubuntu1

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sc (7.16-4ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * lex.c: do not set notimeout (LP: #1549665)

 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:38:33 -0800

Changed in sc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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