Bug 6945

Summary:	6.1 ncurses tgetstr() has a bad incompatability problem
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Siebenmann <cks-rhbugzilla>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Chris Siebenmann 1999-11-12 07:55:11 UTC

tgetstr() violates its specification in an egregarious
way, as covered in bug #6944. The version of tgetstr()
that one gets by linking with -lncurses (alone) breaks
in exactly the same way that the -ltermcap version does
(possibly it is the same version, but they are different
RPM packages, built from different source RPMs, and ldd
shows no cross-dependancies).

 All of my comments in bug #6944 apply equally to the
ncurses version of tgetstr().

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-11-12 18:12:59 UTC

Which documentation states tgetstr() should accept this? (The man page in
ncurses definitely doesn't).
The changelog of the libtermcap package actually documents the change as a
bugfix, so I believe your code is relying on some other-OS specific function.
"Fixing" it is a matter of removing one patch, so if you can convince me that
it's the right thing to do, it can be done quickly.