Re: NCurses 5.3 Bug Reports

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 25), Warren W. Gay VE3WWG said:
> I'd like to report that the following functions are
> occaisionally/always returning faulty return values:
> 
>   attrset/wattrset
> 
> since they return errors (well, at least != OK values), when in fact
> they were successful.

This is documented behaviour:

   The  return  values  of many of these routines are not meaningful (they
   are implemented as macro-expanded assignments and simply  return  their
   argument).   The  SVr4 manual page claims (falsely) that these routines
   always return 1.

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        Dan Nelson
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