According to Christos Zoulas:
>
>It should not return malloc'ed memory; the whole point is that the
>user is providing an area for the string to be copied to.
>

Nope, SUSv2 says tgetstr returns a "char *" and that "**area" is allowed
to be NULL as is (*area).  Besides just about _all_ the code we have
in the tree uses the string returned by tgetstr.  I am starting to
wonder why they pass in a non-NULL area pointer at all come to think
of it.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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