Re: wacky kernel question
Decwriters (hard copy terminal behaviour)
Jeez you must be bored.
Cliff
On Tuesday 09 January 2001 22:31, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured
> this odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know.
>
> If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen.
> That's normal for linux of course. The interesting behavior that
> puzzles me is that if you hit the backspace key, it pops the letter
> that it is backspacing over off of the stack, and prints it. Some /
> and \ characters are printed too around what you typed.
>
> So, if I type:
>
> Joey he_
>
> Then backspace back two spaces, I see:
>
> Joey he\eh/_
>
> Then if I finish up by typing 'Hess', it looks like:
>
> Joey he\eh/Hess_
>
> Finally, if I mash down on backspace to delete it all, I see:
>
> Joey he\eh/Hess\sseH yeoJ/_
>
> Anyone know why this happens? It's a very interesting way to handle
> backspacing, to say the least. It doesn't often matter, since there
> is little point to type at the kernel while it's booting, unless you
> are extremely bored during a long fsck. :-)
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