NetBSD Problem Report #26352

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:39:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter.Bex@student.kun.nl
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Subject: get{max,beg}{x,y} are not X/OPEN curses
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>Number:         26352
>Category:       standards
>Synopsis:       curses_cursor implies get{max, beg}{x, y} are also X/OPEN
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    standards-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 17 15:38:00 +0000 2004
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jul 23 13:42:54 +0000 2004
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 23 13:42:54 +0000 2004
>Originator:     Peter Bex
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0_BETA
>Organization:

>Environment:


System: NetBSD frohike.nvie.com 2.0_BETA NetBSD 2.0_BETA (FROHIKE) #1: Tue Jul 6 14:42:10 CEST 2004 sjamaan@frohike.nvie.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/FROHIKE i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	The curses_cursor(3) manpage says NetBSD curses complies with X/Open
	Curses specification, but getmaxx, getmaxy, getbegx and getbegy are
	unportable NetBSD-only extensions.
>How-To-Repeat:
	N/A
>Fix:
	Change the manpage to say that it's all X/Open _except_ for the listed
	functions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
To: Peter.Bex@student.kun.nl
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org, jdc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/26352: get{max,beg}{x,y} are not X/OPEN curses
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:08:12 +0200

 On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Peter.Bex@student.kun.nl wrote:

 > 	The curses_cursor(3) manpage says NetBSD curses complies with X/Open
 > 	Curses specification, but getmaxx, getmaxy, getbegx and getbegy are
 > 	unportable NetBSD-only extensions.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	N/A
 > >Fix:
 > 	Change the manpage to say that it's all X/Open _except_ for the listed
 > 	functions.

 While I agree that a list of _extensions_ should be provided,
 once again I have to point out that providing extensions
 does not affect _conformance_ (unless done badly).  Please keep
 this in mind when wording such reports.


 - Klaus

 P.S. I suppose the NetBSD curses dept would appreciate diffs. ;-)

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: pr/26352 CVS commit: src/lib/libcurses
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:39:08 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	wiz
 Date:		Fri Jul 23 13:39:08 UTC 2004

 Modified Files:
 	src/lib/libcurses: curses_cursor.3

 Log Message:
 Note that getbegx, getbegy, getmaxx, and getmaxy are extensions
 to X/Open Curses. From Peter Bex in PR 26352.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r1.5 src/lib/libcurses/curses_cursor.3

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wiz 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 23 13:42:27 UTC 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed, thanks. 
>Unformatted:

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