----- 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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
