gpm 1.19.4 - SEGV in Gpm_Open()

[Nico Schottelius]

You are right!
This is fixed in the next gpm version.
I will release 1.19.5 in about one week.

check_devfs was a small hack. Doubled code
is really a bad thing.
Now I excluded it into another file.

Nico


Jakub Bogusz wrote

> [note: I am not subscriber of gpm list, so please Cc: to me when you answer]
>
> There is a bug in libgpm (1.19.4), which causes segmentation fault in
> programs that use libgpm (e.g. mc, links).
> Bug is in devfs support in Gpm_Open() function (liblow.c file).
> Local variable (devfs_id) is used without initializing.
>
> I attach a patch with fix for this bug.
>
> Note that check_devfs() function is in 3 files now (liblow.c, gpm.c,
> mouse-test.c) - maybe it should be included in library?
>
> --
> Jakub Bogusz    http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~qboosh/
> PLD Team        http://www.pld.org.pl/
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