Curses Window in Linux Causing Abort

Question

I have some legacy C code that I recently compiled on Linux. On the original HPUX the application opens and closes multiple curses windows. On the Linux box it can handle one window, but if I close that window, it crashes the program with an error message of "Aborted". Any ideas?

Answer 1

Discovered that it was the touchwin command that was causing it to fail. Removing that line of code seems to have no negative consequences. :-) Thanks all for the help. Up-votes all around.

Answer 2

Given the comments to Charlie Martin's response, it would appear that you are failing to open your window and are then closing a non-open window, with dramatic results. Look to check the return codes of the Curses initialization function(s) and the window open call.

Answer 3

Yes. Change your options with ulimit(1) so when it aborts you save a core dump. Then look at the core dump with gdb(1) to find out where it's aborting and get back to us.