Re: missing use_terminfo_vars() calls in ncurses-5.1-20001007

[Todd C. Miller]

In message <address@hidden>
        so spake Thomas Dickey (dickey):

> I left $TERMCAP in (the non-pathname case) because in the places where
> it's needed, it's because of stuff like xterm setting it for old apps
> that don't get the screen size.  I don't see the harm in leaving it
> there.

It's the same issue as ~/.termcap and TERMPATH since a user can put
arbitrary things in there and then run a privileged program.

 - todd