linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed

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Message-Id: <20080427193616.9a9cdf85.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:36:16 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	adaplas@...il.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: fix background color on line feed

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:

> commit c5180a555ced08a7e3011c16ef796e47569ae907
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
> Date:   Thu Apr 24 22:40:24 2008 +0200
> 
> vt: fix background color on line feed
>     
> A command that causes a line feed while a background color is active,
> such as
>     
> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 60, "\e[44m", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
> and
> 	perl -e 'print "x" x 40, "\e[44m\n", "x" x 40, "\e[0m\n"'
>     
> causes the line that was started as a result of the line feed to be
> completely filled with the currently active background color instead
> of the default color.

Thanks.

It would be better if the the changelog were to also describe the cause of
the bug, and how the patch fixes it.

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