[gpm] problems reopening gpm

Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de
Fri Jan 28 05:24:55 CET 2005


well, I noticed that my vim caught a segfault in the linux console 
everytime it called Gpm_Open() a second time.

I've tracked down this problem to the initialization of the option 
variable in Gpm_Open(). It's initialized to NULL everytime Gpm_Open() is 
called, but to the value of Gpm_get_console() only the first time.
Also this variable is declared extern but included from a header file, too.
It works for me now, with the patch below.

Nico Huber

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--- liblow.c.orig	2005-01-28 05:18:35.000000000 +0100
+++ liblow.c	2005-01-28 05:19:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -193,5 +193,4 @@
     char *term = NULL;
     int i;
-   extern struct options option;
     static int checked_con = 0;
     struct sockaddr_un addr;
@@ -200,6 +199,4 @@
     char* sock_name = 0;

-   option.consolename = NULL;
-
     gpm_report(GPM_PR_DEBUG,"VC: %d",flag);



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