> > And one can make xterm on trixie (not that old) crash: > > > xterm -k8 -e 'printf "\x9a\x85\x08"; sleep 2' > > Thanks for the runnable demo! > > I *really* like demos for shell related discussions, because a big part of > my learning process about the shell came from people providing little > runnable examples like this. I think it's a great way to communicate. > > So I tried that on bookworm, and it crashed as you say.
It doesn't crash for me (on Trixie). It causes xterm to write some information to the screen, and then 2 seconds go by, and then the xterm closes cleanly (because no shell was requested). > When I copied and pasted the above into vim to write this message, I can > see that the 'echo *' did output the bytes <9a><85>. I guess there might > have also been a bell <08> that I did not hear (for whatever reason, that's > not important). > > But the xterm did not crash, it continued to function. It doesn't crash interactively for me, either. Here's what I'm seeing: hobbit:~$ printf "\x9a\x85\x08" hobbit:~$ ?64;1;2;6;9;15;16;17;18;21;22;28c If I press Enter again, the stuff from ? to c gets erased, and I'm back to a regular shell prompt.
