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

[Stefan Puiu]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:11 AM Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>
> 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).

Thanks for the pointer. I think that change is a bit old, though, the
Fedora package seems to be from 2013, and from the look of the release
tag (and the RPM changelog), I think it's based on
dialog-1.2.20130902.

>
> 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...

I guess trying with a newer version is probably a good idea.

Thanks for your help!
Stefan.