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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
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- * @Id: curs_get_wstr.3x,v 1.14 2018/07/28 22:15:59 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: curs_get_wstr.3x,v 1.16 2018/09/01 20:58:10 tom Exp @
-->
@@ -141,6 +141,24 @@
wchar_t is a unsigned type. All of the vendors implement this using
wint_t, following the standard.
+ X/Open Curses issue 7 is unclear regarding whether the terminating null
+ wchar_t value is counted in the length parameter n. X/Open Curses is-
+ sue 7 revised the corresponding description of wgetnstr to address this
+ issue. The unrevised description of wget_nwstr can be interpreted ei-
+ ther way. This implementation counts the terminator in the length.
+
+ X/Open Curses does not specify what happens if the length n is nega-
+ tive.
+
+ o For analogy with wgetnstr, ncurses 6.2 uses a limit (based on
+ LINE_MAX).
+
+ o Some other implementations (such as Solaris xcurses) do the same,
+ while others (PDCurses) do not allow this.
+
+ o NetBSD 7 curses imitates ncurses 6.1 in this regard, treating a -1
+ as an indefinite number of characters.
+
Functions: curses(3x), curs_get_wch(3x), curs_getstr(3x).