SEGV on xterm resizing

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Tue Jan 22 23:35:23 UTC 2002


Hi, PaweЁ!

> When I resize my xterm (or gnome-terminal) running mc and resize it to a
> very small size (like 1x1), MC 4.5.55 dies:
> 
> #0  0x002435f9 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0xbffffbb4 in ?? ()
> #2  0x08050e2f in format_file (dest=0xbfffe610 ' ' <repeats 200
> times>..., 
>     panel=0x8106318, file_index=0, width=-1, attr=5, isstatus=1)
>     at screen.c:547
> #3  0x080511e1 in repaint_file (panel=0x20202020, file_index=538976288, 
>     mv=538976288, attr=538976288, isstatus=538976288) at screen.c:618
> #4  0x20202020 in ?? ()
> Cannot access memory at address 0x20202020

Thanks!  I'm applying the following patch:

========================
--- ChangeLog
+++ ChangeLog
@@ -2,2 +2,5 @@
 
+	* screen.c: Don't try to paint anything if width is 0 or less.
+	Reported by Pawel Sakowski <pawel at sakowski.eu.org>
+
 	* screen.c: Make functions static whenever possible.  Remove
--- screen.c
+++ screen.c
@@ -583,6 +583,10 @@ repaint_file (WPanel *panel, int file_in
     } else
         width = (panel->widget.cols - 2);
 
+    /* Nothing to paint */
+    if (width <= 0)
+	return;
+
     if (mv){
 	if (!isstatus && panel->split){
 	    widget_move (&panel->widget,
========================

Sorry, I cannot use "hard l" in ChangeLog, it's in iso-8859-1.

Now MC survives "compessing" to 1x1.  The editor still crashes, I'll have 
a look.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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