Re: namespace pollution by curses

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:25:13PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > Admittedly, I'm not sure about the usage.  E.g. in wscons case you can
 > press a modifier on one keyboard and the key on another and it should
 > work.  But in case of curses, do the users really expect to be able to
 > input the beginning of a multi-byte sequence on one screen (via that
 > screen-private infd) and the end of if on another screen (via its own
 > screen-private infd) and still get a composed (via static
 > state/inbuf/...) wide character sent to the second screen?

That seems like a bug waiting to be exploited if the app is some kind
of multiuser game that works by multiheading... not that such an
architecture should be encouraged...

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David A. Holland
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