Bug 101180

Description of problem:
When using RedHat 8.0 with GNOME, programs that use inb to read from
an IO port appear to create spurious carriage returns when they are
run inside a gnome-terminal.

I first noticed the trouble when running programs using a data
acquisition device driver I wrote, but I was able to reproduce the
same effect with just a small foo.c program that is compiled with gcc
and run as root so the ioperm call will work.

It appears that calling inb somehow generates extra carriage returns
which are output to the gnome-terminal and then interpreted as user
input.  In this case, the input was processed at the command line, but
if foo had been waiting for user input (eg press return to continue)
it would have processed the extra CRs.  When foo is run from a
standard Ctrl+Alt+F1 console, no extra CRs appear.

Both foo.c and the gnome-terminal output it produces are included
below.

Thanks for your help with this,  W.Tucker PostNorder(at)aol.com


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.1


How reproducible: Very, although the number of carriage returns varies.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile and run as root the following foo.c that calls inb

--------------- Start foo.c ----------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <asm/io.h>   // for inb

int main( void ) {

        long usec;
        unsigned char value;

        ioperm( 0x378, 5, 1 );

        printf( "Testing ...\n" );

        usec = 300000;
        while( usec-- )
                value = inb( 0x379 );

        printf( "Finished\n" );

        return( 0 ); 
}
--------------- End foo.c ----------------------

Actual results:
--------------- Start actual output from foo ----------------------
Testing ...
Finished








[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
[root@Linux foo]# 
--------------- End actual output from foo ----------------------


Expected results:
--------------- Expected output from foo ----------------------
Testing ...
Finished
[root@Linux foo]# 
--------------- End expected output from foo ----------------------


Additional info: