[3.15] gh-154855: Ask non-ncurses curses for one more character (GH-154870) - #156283
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…pythonGH-154870) Passing n to the library is ncurses' reading of n: it stores n characters and adds a terminator. NetBSD curses counts the terminator in n. Ask a library that is neither ncurses nor PDCurses for n + 1, and read again if it stored more than asked; truncating could split a multibyte character. This is not possible for input, so getstr() is left as it is. instr() now takes the length from the value returned by winnstr(), as X/Open specifies, instead of searching for a terminator which it does not. (cherry picked from commit 43a1869)
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Manual backport of #154870.
Passing n to the library is ncurses' reading of n: it stores n characters and adds a terminator. NetBSD curses counts the terminator in n.
Ask a library that is neither ncurses nor PDCurses for n + 1, and read again if it stored more than asked; truncating could split a multibyte character. This is not possible for input, so
getstr()is left as it is.instr()now takes the length from the value returned bywinnstr(), as X/Open specifies, instead of searching for a terminator which it does not.Only
instr()is affected here:in_wstr()andin_wchstr()do not exist in 3.15.(cherry picked from commit 43a1869)