clear.exe stackdump

[Charles Wilson]

David Arnstein wrote:
> Just today, I noticed that /usr/bin/clear will stack dump. This occurs
> in both mintty and rxvt.
> 
> If I execute bash from the Windows "DOS box," I get this:
>       4 [main] clear 13352 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while
> dumping state
>  (probably corrupted stack)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Output from cygcheck -s -v -r attached.
> 

Yep, it's a foul-up in ncurses. I inadvisedly took an upstream patch
without thoroughly testing it.

Stay tuned for an updated ncurses package.

--
Chuck


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