From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: hgb@ifi.uio.no MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain From: Henrik Grindal Bakken To: Karel Zak Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: login/telnet problems References: <20130201163102.GJ3741@x2.net.home> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:29:07 +0100 In-reply-to: <20130201163102.GJ3741@x2.net.home> Message-id: List-ID: Karel Zak writes: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:41:52PM +0100, Henrik Grindal Bakken wrote: >> Hi. I'm working on a product which (sadly) requires telnet, and after >> an upgrade from util-linux-2.20 to 2.22.2, telnet starts acting up by >> dropping the first character (at least that's the easiest problem to >> spot). > > Seems like a kernel problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/15/641 How fascinating! It didn't even remotely occur to me that a (seemingly) login/telnet problem was kernel-related... >> It's not a huge problem for me to keep a local revert of this commit, >> but I thought perhaps you wanted to know it did actually break >> something (although one can argue the very existence of telnet these >> days is a bug...). > > In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904182 someone > suggested -D for telned as workaround :-) Hmm. I'll stick with my util-linux patch for now, I think. I'll follow the development on the kernel bug, though. Thanks a bunch. I actually tried using different -D options to telnet, and noticing that some of them actually fixed the problem, but that gave me debug output on the telnet client, which wasn't really acceptable... -- Henrik Grindal Bakken PGP ID: 8D436E52 Fingerprint: 131D 9590 F0CF 47EF 7963 02AF 9236 D25A 8D43 6E52