2 Jan
2015
2 Jan
'15
9:12 p.m.
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
|> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)update.uu.se> wrote:
|> On 2015-01-01 17:11, Mary Ann Horton<mah(a)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version in /etc and a completely outdated (compared to the termcap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