On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 22:04, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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). Oh thanks, sorry, I misused the word "crash", it didn't crash, it just closed the same as what you saw. I mistakenly assumed "crash" because of the context, and I didn't understand why until you explained. Thanks for pointing that out.
