On Wednesday 02 January 2008 03:13:41 you wrote: > Hi, > > ext James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:29:05 pm Marius Gedminas wrote: > >> Two shell crashes on OS2008. One is reproducible but mostly > >> harmless: > >> > >> $ type > >> > >> /bin/sh segfaults and your session ends. > >> > >> The other is not reproducible: while hitting the <Up> key to go > >> back in history I suddenly got this: > >> > >> ~ $ pidof *** glibc detected *** -sh: double free or > >> corruption (!prev): 0x0004ed40 *** > >> > >> /bin/sh aborts and your session ends. Scary. > >> > >> Marius Gedminas > > > > Marius. I can't get the first one to crash mine. it instead > > lists out the busybox info. As for the second ... I get random > > crashes form the current xterm (less advanced) version that I > > can't repeat. More often than not with more than one window open. > > But the one you can get to work regularly doesn't seem to > > happen. > > > > Also just curious but does anyone know why the clear command > > wasn't compiled into busybox? Was up until 2008. Perhaps an > > oversite? > > Why you need it? > it is used in scripts to clear the term window when switching for example in and out of VI. > "clear" command comes from ncurses-bin package on Debian along with > e.g. terminfo database manipulation programs. ncurses-bin is a > Debian essential and "clear" is also in posix standard so it would > probably be good if it would be in the device by default. Up until now clear was a compiled "applet" in busybox Not supplied by ncurses-bin Unfortunately ... ncurses-bin is installed ... and it doesn't have the command (in the maemo version) as in the past it would have conflicted with the busy box version of clear. > > Busybox package doesn't provide ncurses-bin and from the binaries > included into that package Busybox binary could be configured > to provided only clear and reset. I'm not sure how nice it would > be to have that limited ncurses-bin package in the device... > The terminfo database tools shouldn't be necessary there. :-) Your right one package isn't expected to supply the another. But here again. check OS2007 OS2006 and OS2005 busybox in all of them supplied clear on maemo. > > > - Eero
