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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Stefan Puiu wrote:
> 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.

agreed - I mentioned it because I didn't notice further change notes
for this issue (though I seem to recall some followup).
 
> > 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.

yes - I'd expect that once you get to making dialog configure/build,
then most of the intermediate versions would build in the same environment
without trouble.
 
> Thanks for your help!

no problem (report bugs)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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