help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH

[Alexander Best]

Eygene Ryabinkin schrieb am 2009-11-03:
> Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:32:29PM +0100, Alexander Best wrote:
> > ok. the pr stays in patched state. right now the patch is in HEAD,
> > 8-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE. rafan is thinking about mfc'ing the patch
> > to
> > 6-stable and 7-stable. however if somebody is willing to modify the
> > patch so it applies to those branches that'll be great

> Patch applies cleanly to the 7-STABLE, moreover, lib_getch.c from it
> has the same logics and fifo_push is essentially unmodified in the
> areas that are relevant for this flaw.

> I had patched 7-STABLE on the test machine, brought ee from 8.x and
> verified that unpatched ncurses give immediate exit, while patched
> curses give working ee in respect to the SIGWINCH.

> I had also mildly tested vi and sysinstall on the patched 7-STABLE
> and found no visible regressions.

great. so do we need/want the patch in 6.x?

alex