[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bash Version: 2.05 > Patch Level: 8 > Release Status: release > > Description: > if "read -n" is used to read control character input from > a tty, it will miscount the input characters by a factor > of two.
Thanks for the report. The bug still exists in the current release, but it's an easy fix. Note that this happens only for ^A, not any control character. The shell uses ^A for internal quoting, and has to treat it specially on input. That's the reason for the doubled counts. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash