[TUHS] termcap vs terminfo (was: I swear! I rtfm'ed)
Steffen Nurpmeso
sdaoden at yandex.com
Sat Jan 3 06:12:58 AEST 2015
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
|> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
|> On 2015-01-01 17:11, Mary Ann Horton<mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
|>>
|>> The move was from termcap to terminfo. Termlib was the \
|>> library for termcap.
|>> But the big motivator was performance. Reading in a termcap entry from
|>> /etc/termcap was terribly slow. First you had to scan all the way
|BSD solved this problem that way: parse /etc/termcap and put \
|all the entries into termcap.db. :)
I like the current approach of FreeBSD: having a super-minimalized
version in /etc and a completely outdated (compared to the termcap
that Thomas Dickey maintains) stale version in /usr/share.
--steffen
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