Control: reassign -1 screen Control: retitle -1 screen: emits \0 characters which garbages d-i output over serial console Control: tags -1 + upstream patch Control: forwarded -1 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50588
Hello, To screen maintainers: screen spuriously emits \0 characters as now reported on: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50588 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 19 mars 2017 21:37:19 +0100, wrote: > On 03/19/2017 09:30 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I'm wondering whether we want to include the fix in Stretch? > > I can test the patch and see if that fixes our problem. If it does, I'd > suggest including this patch so we make sure other people don't run into > this problem when using debian-installer over serial console. It might > affected machines other than SPARC servers. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 19 mars 2017 21:50:20 +0100, wrote: > So, I just did a quick test with screen and mc and, indeed, with the > patch applied, the problem is fixed for me. Screen maintainers, do you feel like uploading the attached patch to fix the issue in Stretch? Thanks, Samuel
--- a/termcap.c +++ b/termcap.c @@ -486,6 +486,8 @@ int he; D_tcinited = 1; MakeTermcap(0); + /* Make sure libterm uses external term properties for our tputs() calls. */ + e_tgetent(tbuf, D_termname); #ifdef MAPKEYS CheckEscape(); #endif
