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Re: recent terminfo changes




> On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:37 PM, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> 
> blacklistd was not working for me and the ACL check you mention was certainly not described anywhere I saw. After reading the Fine Man Page, I came to the conclusion that passing a sockaddr with a fd of -1 was expected to work with the code as is. Hence my change.

That's a fair point. It is explained in the presentation slides, and now I've also added it to the man page.

> As libterminfo is deeply embedded in our system (just as termcap was) I regard it as just as critical, if not more-so. With a busted libterminfo on a stock install vi won't work and nor will pkg_add to install an alternative editor.

Yup, I used vi to test it.

> At least if dhcpcd is busted you can still bring up the network manually.

Not always. I can't really guess what address my network provider will give me, and it will not talk to me if I use one it has not given to me.

christos

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