Re: [PATCH] console_codes.4: Add missing escape sequence

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 02/27/2015 03:32 PM, Scot Doyle wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Scott,
>>
>> On 02/27/2015 03:35 AM, Scot Doyle wrote:
>>> An undocumented escape sequence in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c brings the
>>> previously accessed virtual terminal to the foreground.
>>
>> Thanks. Applied. Looks like this sequence appeared with ~2.6.0 or so.
>> Do you know if this is so?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael
> 
> "git log -p -- drivers/char/vt.c" shows that it's included in the initial 
> 2005 git commit. Is there an easier way to view early kernel history than 
> digging through kernel tarballs?

Tarballs is what I use in such cases... (And what I did in this case...)

Cheers,

Michael



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