From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav@netis.ru>
To: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Ncurses Developers <ncurses-dev@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: linux 2.6.26 vt back_color_erase
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:49:53 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010164953.GA27092@night.netis.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081003081147.GA16414@night.netis.ru>
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:11:47PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> Current linux kernel has broken bce semantics. Now insert_line and
> delete_line clear the new lines with default color and not with the current
> background as they should, and what is expected by ncurses.
>
> vc->vc_scrl_erase_char was introduced in 2.6.26 for some reason. I beleave
> this change should be backed out.
I think that the test cases Jan provided could be fixed by temporary
changing erase char when doing cr/lf when vc->vc_need_wrap is true.
There is no need to change erase character for all scrolling operations.
--
Alexander.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 8:11 linux 2.6.26 vt back_color_erase Alexander V. Lukyanov
2008-10-10 16:49 ` Alexander V. Lukyanov [this message]
2008-10-10 17:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-13 5:24 ` Alexander V. Lukyanov
2008-10-13 7:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-13 8:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-14 8:16 ` Alexander V. Lukyanov
2008-10-14 15:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
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