ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080223

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1197 2008/01/13 01:05:34 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1208 2008/02/23 21:26:58 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,42 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20080223
+       + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+         lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+       + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+         is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+       + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+         comparisons.  This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+         that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping.  None of the Unix-branded
+         implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+       + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+         for both narrow/wide models.  It had been set only for wide model,
+         but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+       + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+         using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+         further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+         Chernov).
+       + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+         If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+         sequence.
+
+20080126
+       + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+         handling).  Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+         or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+       + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+       + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+       + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
 20080112
        + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
        + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's