On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If your shell command line looks like:
sh-3.1# abcd
Then insert another 'b' in front of the existing 'b'. The 'c' will
become corrupted.
The actual characters don't matter, except that the inserted character must be
the same as the existing one.
It happens in all even columns, so if your prompt is different, just try it at
a different even position.
It happens in frame buffer depths 2, 4, and 8. In monochrome mode the corruption
is different. In 16 bpp, when it uses the cfb code, there's no
corruption, so the bug
must be in the Atari-specific code.
I could not reproduce it in vi, only in bash.
Tested on ARAnyM only.
FTR, this was "fixed" in commit 81732c3b2fede049 ("tty vt: Fix line
garbage in virtual console on command line edition") in v3.7, followed
by a few fixes for the regressions introduced by this fix.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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