Package talk: Information

    Source package: talk
    Version: 0.17-alt4
    Build time:  Apr 18, 2013, 11:34 PM
    Category: Networking/Chat
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    License: BSD
    Summary: Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting
    Description: 
    This package provides client and daemon programs for the
    Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users
    on different systems.  Talk is a communication program which copies
    lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    talk (x86_64, i586)
    talk-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
    talk-server (x86_64, i586)
    talk-server-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)

    Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin

    List of contributors:
    Dmitry V. Levin
    Anton Farygin

      1. libncursesw-devel

    Last changed


    April 18, 2013 Dmitry V. Levin 1:0.17-alt4
    - Built with LFS support enabled.
    Nov. 12, 2006 Dmitry V. Levin 1:0.17-alt3
    - Fixed build with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Werror.
    - Fixed a few fd leaks on error path.
    - Made xinetd config readable for wheel group.
    - Linked talk client with -lncursesw.
    - Imported RH patch to avoid using deprecated SO_BSDCOMPAT.
    - Imported RH patch to fix spurious 0x9a ("^Z") on window resize.
    - Imported RH patch to handle UTF-8 input.
    Sept. 5, 2004 Dmitry V. Levin 1:0.17-alt2
    - talkd: Fixed potential DoS, based on patch from Mauro Persano.