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Don't break curses applications in terminalHasColors()
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Authored by osandov on Aug 12 2016, 11:00 AM.

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chandlerc
Summary

terminalHasColors() reinitializes curses every time it is called,
which breaks curses applications. For example, bcc was seeing Python
curses crashes in https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/615, and GNU
readline is broken by llvm::SMDiagnostic::print() in my own project:
https://github.com/osandov/asmase/issues/1.

Instead of reinitializing curses every time we check for colors, only do
it if curses hasn't already been initialized. For that, we can check
cur_term, the global variable which is set up by curses when
newterm() or setupterm() is called.

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osandov updated this revision to Diff 67863.Aug 12 2016, 11:00 AM
osandov retitled this revision from to Don't break curses applications in terminalHasColors().
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osandov updated this revision to Diff 78439.Nov 17 2016, 4:59 PM
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Rebase. @chandlerc, could you please take a look?