27 вересня 2005 о 18:23 +0200 Helge Kreutzmann написав(-ла): > Hello, > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:09:41PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > > You can switch terminal to all-caps more easyly: just enter you login in > > all-caps and then password as usual. So, I think it (all-caps) is normal > > behavior (for historic reasons probably). > > Yikes! And no, I haven't seen all caps during my bug experience. > > > I tried to look at problem with erasing of characters and found that > > kernel uses undocumented (in termios(3)) flag IUTF8. If this flag is not > > set kernel tty driver will interpret characters as single-byte. So some > > program should set this flag when terminal is in UTF8 mode... > > > > Attached patch fixes this problem for 'login' when it run under UTF-8 > > locale. But on usual system it is run under C locale :(. So, I think > > some other program should do this (console-tools/kbd?), but this will > > not fix problem for terminal emulators :(. > > Yes, I do not (yet) use UTF8, so either C or my "normal" locale > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (I am not sure how to find that out). But as posted in my > other mail, somehow login "changes" the values which are seen later on > with "stty -a". Probably (as with the uppercase described above) a > historic decision, if login encounters certain cases, it "set" the > environment in a certain way? If that is not documented somwhere, than > login should simply not do this. If yes, then the admin should be able > to "undo" this in a defined way, if he wants. > > Should I try the patch nevertheless? It will not change anything if you do not use UTF8.
-- Eugeniy Meshcheryakov Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Information and Computing Centre http://icc.univ.kiev.ua
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