ncurses strangeness?

[Paul.Emsley@chem.gla.ac.uk]

       Hi, 

       I will toying with ncurses and found this strange behaviour:

       On GNU/Linux, the program exits (as I expect) when "q" is pressed.

       On GNU/Hurd, it does not.

       [I compiled also for SGI IRIX (using curses) and the program
       does exit, but also logs me out(!).] 

       My C programming skills are sadly week, so it may also due to a
       bug in the program...

      Help?

      Thanks, 

      Paul.

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#include <ncurses.h>

int 
wait_and_check_for_quit() {
  
  int max_loop = 10;
  int i;
  int chr;

  for (i=0; i<max_loop; i++) { 

    chr=getch();
    if (chr == 'q') { 
      exit(0);
    }
    usleep(100000);			/* 0.1 seconds */
  }
  /* we got to the end and q has not been pressed */
  return FALSE;
}


int
main(int argc, char **argv) {

  initscr();
  noecho();
  cbreak(); 
  keypad (stdscr, TRUE);

  leaveok(stdscr, TRUE);   /* no cursor */
  nodelay(stdscr, TRUE);   /* don't wait for keypress */

   while(1) {
     if (wait_and_check_for_quit() == TRUE) { /* let's exit */
       return 0;
     }
   }

}