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Subject:	Re: Waiting for //.terminfo or //.termcap
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:09:55 -0500
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Ken Fast wrote:
> I will check into the ncurses
> issue and maybe even go poking around in the source code.

That would be great. I am pretty sure it *is* a bug, because IIRC POSIX 
explicitly allows '//' to mean something other than '/'. This means that 
looking for //.terminfo if HOME=/ is Bad and Just Plain Wrong. It would 
even be a security issue if it is possible for a .terminfo/.termcap to 
be dangerous...

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Matthew
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