Bug 70013

Summary: "reset" does not reset terminal
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Gigs <jgiglio>
Component: vteAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Version: limboCC: hp, nalin
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Description Gigs 2002-07-28 23:57:05 UTC
Description of Problem:
The reset program from the ncurses library does not reset a terminal which has
been trashed by displaying binary data.

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How Reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /dev/urandom
2. type reset
3.
	

Additional Information:
	
This worked in Red Hat 7.3

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-08-14 07:13:34 UTC
This should be fixed with vte 0.7.3 and later.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-08-16 04:20:39 UTC
Fix confirmed with vte-0.7.4-1.