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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804292014130.21466@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:17:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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 Monday 2008-04-28 08:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Monday 2008-04-28 04:36, Andrew Morton 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.
>>
>Please append:
>[...]

I think your mailer has whitespace problems -- all whitespaces
got replaced by two, even intrasentence after an "e.g."  :-P
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/