Re: namespace pollution by curses

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 2019/03/08 22:53, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:41:51PM +0900, Rin Okuyama wrote:
>
> > I've found that this is because curses uses a global variable "state":
> > https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/lib/libcurses/getch.c#50
> > https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/lib/libcurses/get_wch.c#52
>
> Can both variants of inkey() co-exist?
> I would just make both decalarations static.

Hmm, I could not find a description in SUSv4 on what happens if both
single- and wide-character interfaces are used in the same terminal.

I suppose that it is not a best practice, but the question is
whether there are applications depending on the current behavior.

"state" was turned into global when wide curses was merged:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libcurses/getch.c#rev1.48

Brett, Ruibiao, do you remember why?

Thanks,
rin