15.11.2012 12:48, Petr Pisar wrote: > It's similar but insufficient. The difference between your clear_str[] > = "\33[H\33[J" and my string is my way clears scroll-back buffer of Linux > virtual terminal too. This prevents from reading history using Shift-PgUp > while the terminal is locked. Read current console_codes(4) page, especially > search for word "buffer". > > So what I ask is to prepend "\33[3J" to your clear_str[]. This even users with > older kernel not implementing this code get console cleared. Sounds reasonable. > If I understand the code correctly, you clear screen only if it's a virtual > terminal. I have no idea how usefull is vlock on other terminals (I use > "screen" there), so I do not request any change in this matter. Ok. This is what I wanted to find out. Guys, I want to release the new version of kbd next month. This will be the first kbd release with the vlock. Do you have any more suggestions on vlock? -- Rgrds, legion -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html