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+/****************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
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+ *                                                                          *
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+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ *  Author: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <zmbenhal@netcom.com> 1992,1995               *
+ *     and: Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>                         *
+ *     and: Thomas E. Dickey                        1996-2003               *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+**	lib_initscr.c
+**
+**	The routines initscr(), and termname().
+**
+*/
+
+#include <curses.priv.h>
+
+#if HAVE_SYS_TERMIO_H
+#include <sys/termio.h>		/* needed for ISC */
+#endif
+
+MODULE_ID("$Id: lib_initscr.c,v 1.38 2008/08/16 21:20:48 Werner.Fink Exp $")
+
+NCURSES_EXPORT(WINDOW *)
+initscr(void)
+{
+    WINDOW *result;
+
+    NCURSES_CONST char *name;
+
+    START_TRACE();
+    T((T_CALLED("initscr()")));
+
+    _nc_init_pthreads();
+    _nc_lock_global(curses);
+
+    /* Portable applications must not call initscr() more than once */
+    if (!_nc_globals.init_screen) {
+	_nc_globals.init_screen = TRUE;
+
+	if ((name = getenv("TERM")) == 0
+	    || *name == '\0')
+	    name = "unknown";
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+	/*
+	 * 2002/9/21
+	 * Work around a bug in Cygwin.  Full-screen subprocesses run from
+	 * bash, in turn spawned from another full-screen process, will dump
+	 * core when attempting to write to stdout.  Opening /dev/tty
+	 * explicitly seems to fix the problem.
+	 */
+	if (isatty(fileno(stdout))) {
+	    FILE *fp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w");
+	    if (fp != 0 && isatty(fileno(fp))) {
+		fclose(stdout);
+		dup2(fileno(fp), STDOUT_FILENO);
+		stdout = fdopen(STDOUT_FILENO, "w");
+	    }
+	}
+#endif
+	if (newterm(name, stdout, stdin) == 0) {
+	    fprintf(stderr, "Error opening terminal: %s.\n", name);
+	    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	/* def_shell_mode - done in newterm/_nc_setupscreen */
+	def_prog_mode();
+    }
+    result = stdscr;
+    _nc_unlock_global(curses);
+
+    returnWin(result);
+}