Re: vte-2017 terminfo entry should include E3 capability

[Bill Gray]

On 3/9/24 14:44, G. Branden Robinson wrote:> Yeah, but when are they going to 
work around the recalcitant ncurses
> maintainer who hates his users and patch it to sleep(-1) when resetting?

   sleep() takes an unsigned value.  The patch should use napms(-1000),  since 
that function takes a signed int.

   Out of idle curiosity,  I just checked to see what happens if you call 
napms( -1000) (or other negative value).  With ncurses,  it returns 'OK' 
immediately.  (Unfortunately,  it doesn't return a second before the call was 
made.  That would be pretty cool.)

   With PDCursesMod (and probably PDCurses),  sleep( -1000) just hangs on some 
platforms.  So I got an (admittedly minor) bug fix out of your remark [1].

   nanosleep() will return EINVAL if you try to time-travel backwards.  
Possibly,  napms() should return ERR.

   Now that my curiosity has been raised... Thomas,  I'm wondering why there's 
a thirty-second cap on napms() in ncurses? [2]

-- Bill

[1] 
https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod/commit/65dfa7e61aeb5fb1babf43056139a2afe75c01d7
[2] https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_kernel.3x.html#h3-napms
> 😡
>
> Regards,
> Branden