Bug#2155: tcsh - aborts if unknown TERM at login

[andrew@toaster.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)]

> Package: tcsh
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: standard
> Section: shells
> Version: 6.06
> Revision: 2
>
>
> I've found that tcsh fails on rlogin or telnet if the TERM env
> variable provided by those protocols is unknown on the system.  Tcsh
> fails after having completed all of .cshrc and .login.  It appears to
> die as soon as it tries to display the prompt.  Strace makes it seems
> like the problem is with reading "/etc/termcap", possibly a type
> of buffer overflow.
>
> My prompt:  %B%m:%h - %~%#%b    (look like: "bcarsd26:75 - ~/bin>")
>
> Below is some strace output that I thought might be relavent.  The terminal
> type supplied is "vs100" (the xterm entry on Solaris 2.3).

Was an ncurses bug, compiling with later version fixed it. This was fixed
in tcsh-6.06-3.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au
Perth, Western Australia		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au