Re: more details for errors

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some functions return an errorcode when something fails, like ERR or NULL.
> That is not so helpfull in all situations :)
> Maybe adding something that logs to syslog or something?
> Like: ncurses checks for an environment ('NCURSES_DO_ERROR_LOG' or so) being
> set and then logs to syslog.

The debug library has a trace feature which shows the parameters for
most (perhaps all) of the ncurses functions.  It also shows the return
value.

> I'm very much willing to implement all of this, but I hate to do this work
> if it is not going to be used anyway, so please tell me what your opinion is
> about all of this.
>
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>
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