Re: namespace pollution by curses

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20190312134722.GA1087%netbsd.org@localhost>,
David Holland  <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>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...

Yes, really there should be no static state (but that's a harder goal to
reach).

christos