From: Pieter Kunst & Heidrun Steinhauser <kunstein AT IAEhv DOT nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Curses bugs.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 22:04:48 +0200
Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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To: Cs3prj Group 04 <cs3prj04 AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au>
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Cs3prj Group 04 wrote:
> 
> Has anyone come across the following PD curses error?
> 
> If I run my curses program and continually interract with it for
> a period of time then there are no problems. If, however, I start
> it and then leave it for a few minutes and then go back to it then
> the first key I press causes a segmentation fault.

That's new to me. I never saw that happen.
 
> If the program is sitting there then none of my code is being executed and
> the only function which will be running will be getch() or wgetch() or
> what ever (assuming that they are set up as blocking functions). So I can
> only conclude that the problem is with curses and not my code.
> 
> Can anyone show me that I am wrong?

Can you show me that you are right? :-)
I mean: post a small program to the newsgroup that has the described
behaviour, and we can look at it.
Also tell which version of PDCurses you're using (2.2 I assume).

Pieter.