Re: dialog --pause not timing out on serial console (dialog 1.2)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:35:37PM +0200, Stefan Puiu wrote:
...
> We have dialog 1.2 (release 4.20130902.fc20) and ncurses 5.9 (release
> 12.20130511.fc20), I know, ancient stuff.

yes, that's known and supposed to have been fixed.
This appears to be relevant:

https://invisible-island.net/dialog/CHANGES.html#t20030818
        + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
          used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty.  Also correct
          the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
          find a way to do output (Debian #205509).

Offhand I don't see a followup.  I'd check (compile my own copy) of later
a later version to see if there was an improvement...

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