Re: virtual console problem?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@zip.com.au)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:19:27 +1100


Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> "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:

Its probably because the output from echoing all the newlines is getting
mixed up in ls's output, and appearing in the middle of the ansi escape
sequences and making them do odd things. Not a kernel problem.

J