Re: Bug#29810: dpkg: dselect bombs when xterm resizes window in select
On 21 Nov 1998 amos@gezernet.co.il wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.31
>
> Simply run dselect under xterm, enter the select stage (get to the
> package list window, it doesn't happen in the initial help screen) and
> resize the xterm window.
>
> Dselect will exit with the following message:
>
> |root@butch| dselect
> dselect: getch failed: Interrupted system call
> |root@butch|
I've seen this too, someone speculated that it might have to do with the
new ncurses. If I recall this didn't happen in hamm.
Jason
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