Re: Dump dumps core

2007-01-11 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Philip Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, the non-obvious step in the above is the first: why does > control-4 generate 'FS'? Well, I don't know what terminal you are talking about, but generally everything that aims to emulate a VT220 should have this mapping, because the actual DEC VT2

Re: Dump dumps core

2007-01-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On 1/10/07, Antti Harri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was able to make `dump` dump core when I pressed control-4 <...> Control-4 generates character 28 (FS), which is usually known as control-backslash. That character is, by default, the 'quit' character in canonical mode of the terminal line

Dump dumps core

2007-01-10 Thread Antti Harri
Hello, I was able to make `dump` dump core when I pressed control-4, I didn't test any other key combinations. I was able to do this with 3.8-release and 4.0-current: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/test bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 1