Re: lib/51673: curses: standend() does not turn off A_BOLD

[Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/51673; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/51673: curses: standend() does not turn off A_BOLD
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:15:09 +0100 (CET)

 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
 
 > This is a difference between XPG4 curses and BSD curses. I am not sure
 > what's
 > the best way to deal with it.
 > 
 > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9693989999/toc.pdf says that
 > standend()
 > is equivalent to calling attron(A_NORMAL), whereby our man pages state that
 > standend only turns off the standout attribute.
 > 
 > I think that we should follow suit, but it feels wrong :-)
 
 Sorry, I didn't know, that it is intended.  Brett Lymn wrote few days ago, that NetBSD curses follows the spec mentioned above.  Because of that I even didn't check the manpage--which clearly states that only A_STANDOUD is cleared.  It does not harm to add a attrset(A_NORMAL) in the code which works with ncurses too.  Maybe it is better to withdraw this commit.  Sorry for the work and confusion :(