----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Petersen Liman" <[email protected]>
To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: LFS-6.6 - Old bug in bash has returned


>>>
>>> Can someone confirm? This was an old bug that seems to have returned in
>>> LFS-6.6. When you use color escapes (or presumably any other escape
>>> sequence), the count is added for the total of all columns, followed by
>>> line wrapping overwriting the prompt. I don't know a better way to
>>> explain other than showing:
>>>
>> not a bug
>> I fixed the same mistake in our prompt 2 years ago
>> you have to escape with \[ \] the non printing characters
>Actually on my mac and the gentoo livecd it acts normal without that
>line thingy appering for me possibly because you are using a old
>version.

checked on 
bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
I don't think it's old ;-)

busybox ash behave the same.

Gilles
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