Hi,
I believe this issue has come up before with a similar patch but
well i've submitted such a patch more than two years ago. Unfortunatelly
it got never applied, so that I have to patch my Qemu on every update...
someone checked their ncurses and they didn't see the same issue.
I just checked and here mvwaddchnstr() does not expect a null-terminated
string either, but it skips the \0 characters.
This is not conforming to the Single UNIX Specification, which states
that the string is shown "until a null chtype is encountered". See for
example:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xcurses/addchstr.html
So probably we should
replace them with spaces or something else, I wouldn't like to
replace a single library call with 80 calls, it's better to go through
the string and replace them, maybe in console_write_ch or somewhere
else.
That would be a one-liner. Should I send such a patch?