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has caused the Debian Bug report #388185,
regarding vcstime does not work with console width>=256
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Package: console-tools
Version: 0.2.3dbs-65
vcstime broken on console with a size of 256x128. It floods the screen
with the time because it can't seek when it thinks the width is 0.
The problem is that /dev/vcsa stores the width in a single byte, so it
reports my width as 0. vcstime then also thinks that my width is 0.
There are a few solutions.
One is to change number_of_columns() in vcstime.c to return an unsigned
short, and make it return (rc[1]+256) if the number is less than 20 or
so (to prevent impossible sizes).
This will at least fix the flooding when it can't seek to any offset of
the console, so this should be done regardless.
A better, but harder, way is to use more well documented (and more
correct) methods of finding the size than the second byte of the
/dev/vcsa device.
For example, the "resize" program correctly determines my width--that's
how I found out it was 256 in the first place. I've also never had
problems with any other programs like less, vi, emacs, or (e)links that
require the width, so I suspect that their method of finding the width
could be applied to vcstime.
Debian: etch/testing
Kernel version: 2.6.17.3
-Patrick
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Version: 2:0.2.3-73+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package console-tools has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/671342
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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