[BRLTTY] BRLTTY crash

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi Dave

Dave Mielke schrieb am 25.09.2016,  0:18 -0400:
>[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2016/09/24 at 16:11 +0200]
>
>>I was able to hunt down the cause. Speech Dispatcher is not started on my system
>>automatically. In the asynchronous_event.c, a pointer is supplied to the event
>>handler function, but it's not checked for null. I've inserted the check and I
>>have not seen a crash until now.
>>Please let me know whether the check is at the appropriate place and consider
>>including the patch.
>
>I'd rather not resolve it that way as, since that argument should never be 
>NULL, checking for NULL will end up obscuring real problems elsewhere.
I see.

>I've just tried simulating a speech driver start failure by trying to start one 
>that doesn't exist. Doing this doesn't reproduce the problem. Could you please 
>log with -ldebug,speech,spkdrv so I can try to figure out how it's failing?
I've done so. I'll send you the log file off-list.
The manual page mentions numbers for -l, but does not explain the options debug
or speech. Could this be added? I'm looking for an option to log any
keyboard-related events, if possible.

Thanks
Sebastian
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