Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
What's your point?
> From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:18:30 -0900
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?
> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:33:08AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently noticed that cat'ing a bin file in the terminal will render this
>> terminal unusable. Here is a short reproducible test case :
>>
>> $cat /sbin/mkfs.ext2
>>
>> Garbage is populating the output (which is ok in case of non-ascii chars),
>> but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed is
>> just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts.
>
> you have obviously never used a unix system before.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
Reply to: