Re: termcap bug on Linux

[Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On May 27,  5:09pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> } Subject: termcap bug on Linux
> }
> } Mandrake cooker (currently glibc-2.2.3, termcap-11.0.1-4mdk) compiled 
> } with termcap, no ncurses.  tgetflag() returns 0 for both unset and 
> } nonexsiting flags, which means that $termcap[cap] returns "no" for 
> } almost everything except numeric capabilities.
>
> Does the following patch help?  This duplicates code from echotc() into
> gettermcap() -- so the two should at least now agree with each other,
> which they might not have before, even if they're both wrong.


Yes.


> Does something similar need to go into scantermcap() ?


I guess, no. In scantermcap() we know type of each capability.

-andrej