Re: NCurses 5.3 Bug Reports

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:32:03PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 25), Warren W. Gay VE3WWG said:
> > I'd like to report that the following functions are
> > occaisionally/always returning faulty return values:
> > 
> >   attrset/wattrset
> > 
> > since they return errors (well, at least != OK values), when in fact
> > they were successful.
> 
> This is documented behaviour:
> 
>    The  return  values  of many of these routines are not meaningful (they
>    are implemented as macro-expanded assignments and simply  return  their
>    argument).   The  SVr4 manual page claims (falsely) that these routines
>    always return 1.

...and in turn (because they copied the text), X/Open says they return OK or 1,
but does not say what conditions produce a given result.

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