[perl #21824] The Term::ReadKey seems to be broken in CygWin Perl

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This is a bug report for perl from mjw@bahnhof.se,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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The Term::ReadKey seems to be broken in CygWin (Win98SE) Perl


#! /usr/bin/perl
use Term::ReadKey;

ReadMode 'cbreak';
for (;;) {
   $char = ReadKey(-1);
   if (defined($char)) {
     print $char;
     exit();
   }
}


This small program will never terminate. ReadKey(-1) does not
work and does not accept any keypresses.

'perlbug' utility seems to be broken under CygWin as well.

Therefore I had to manually generate the system info and paste i
it below.


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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=high
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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=cygwin, osvers=1.3.22(0.7832), archname=cygwin-multi-64int
    uname='cygwin_nt-4.0 iokaste 1.3.22(0.7832) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown cygwin '
    config_args='-de -Dmksymlinks -Dusemultiplicity -Duse64bitint -Doptimize=-O2 -Dman3ext=3pm'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020927 (prerelease)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Built under cygwin
  Compiled at Mar 30 2003 17:34:10
  %ENV:
    CYGWIN="tty"
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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