On Monday 07 January 2008 01:08:11 Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 03:13:41 you wrote: > >> 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. > > If only clear and reset from the ncurses-bin package would be > needed, busybox could include both and declared that it provides > ncurses-bin. Actually prior to os2008 that is what it did. >
