On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Russell Stuart wrote: > Conspy has a fixed size internal buffer for the screen. > It was not large enough to handle your console. I have > enlarged it. > > I have also improved the error reporting when it is given > a screen that is too big for it to handle.
Goodie :) > I believe the code is correct as it stands. The kernel > is copying the bytes from an internal RAM buffer. Thus > the copy can not be interrupted and return less bytes > than expected. Also, the code assumes the kernel is > going to return a particular data structure of a known > size. If the data structure returned has a different > size then the kernel has changed its internal data > structures for the virtual console. If that happens > conspy will no longer work. In that case it is > better that conspy gives a sensible error message, > (like the one you saw), as opposed to dumping garbage > on the screen. Thanks for the insight. > The new code is now ready to be uploaded to Debian. > I expect it will take a few days to get through the > upload & review process before it becomes available > in the archive. If you are impatient, you can download > the new version from here: > > http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian Yes, I am. So I downloaded, built and tested. It now works as expected. Thanks. Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
