virtual console problem?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.co.at)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 14:53:52 +0100 (MET)


"ls" output gets corrupted sometimes. Here is the way to reproduce it:

ls -a<enter><keep enter pressed>

do it in a largish directory (my home dir), and after several tries, one
of the output lines gets corrupted:

"/ works/__________________________________________________"

^^^^^^^^^^^ extra underlines till end of line

the correct output should be:

"/ works/"

These underlines appear only if you keep the enter key pressed, or if you
do "ls" after a longer idle time.

This could be a "bash", or a virtual console problem. I'm using the color
ls, the "corrupted" lines are only the "directory" ones (blue on a vanilla
Slackware ls)

i've had this problem for a long time (all the 1.3.* kernels?), but couldnt
reproduce it.

I'm using SVGATextMode with a 100x36 text screen ....

any ideas?

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