ncurses as distributed on 6.1-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE system has a free() of already free'd memory in the delscreen() function causing an error message to be sent to stderr and if running as root causes a sigabrt to be sent to the process. Fix: The ncurses port fixes the issue, but the released system code should probably be fixed. How-To-Repeat: #include <time.h> #include <curses.h> /* * cc -o nc_test -lncurses ncurses.c */ int current_getch; int doloop = 1; static SCREEN *s; static WINDOW *screen; int now_sec, now_min, now_hour, now_day, now_wday, now_month, now_year; time_t now; struct tm *now_tm; void screen_init(void) { s = newterm("vt100", stdout, stdin); set_term (s); noecho(); cbreak(); halfdelay(1); refresh(); // 1) screen = newwin(13, 27, 1, 1); box(screen, ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE); } static void update_display(void) { curs_set(0); mvwprintw(screen,1,1,"-------- HEADER --------"); mvwprintw(screen,3,6,"TIME: %d:%d:%d", now_hour, now_min, now_sec); mvwprintw(screen,5,6,"DATE: %d-%d-%d", now_day, now_month, now_year); mvwprintw(screen,7,6,"PRESS q TO END"); mvwprintw(screen,10,1,"-------- FOOTER --------"); wrefresh(screen); refresh(); } void screen_end(void) { delwin(screen); endwin(); delscreen(s); } void maketime(void) { // Get the current date/time now = time (NULL); now_tm = localtime (&now); now_sec = now_tm->tm_sec; now_min = now_tm->tm_min; now_hour = now_tm->tm_hour; now_day = now_tm->tm_mday; now_wday = now_tm->tm_wday; now_month = now_tm->tm_mon + 1; now_year = now_tm->tm_year + 1900; } int main(void) { screen_init(); while (doloop) { current_getch = getch(); if (current_getch == 113) { doloop = 0; } maketime(); update_display(); sleep(1); } screen_end(); printf("TEST ENDS\n"); return 0; }
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->rafan rafan just updated ncurses in FreeBSD.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Could you please try a recent current, which includes ncurses 5.6 in the base.
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Feedback timeout (3 months). If this is still a problem, please let us know and we can reopen it.