Re: Standards question wrt winnstr & friends

[William McBrine]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, William McBrine wrote:

> According to the standard:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcurses/winnstr.html
>
> Upon successful completion, innstr(), mvinnstr(), mvwinnstr() and
> winnstr() return the number of characters actually read into the string.
>
> Otherwise, all these functions return ERR.
>
> So ncurses' behavior is correct.

...although, on further examination, the standard also says this:

 Upon successful completion, instr(), mvinstr(), mvwinstr() and winstr()
 return OK.

which ncurses does NOT do. (It passes the number of characters for both 
groups.) Granted, there's probably no benefit in conforming here.

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William McBrine <address@hidden>