Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Then perhaps it's readline? >> Do you still get it if you invoke parted like this? >> >> # env TERM=dumb parted /dev/hda quit | od -a > > # env TERM=dumb parted /dev/hda quit | od -a > 0000000 > ... > It's ncurses. Downgrading from 5.6 to 5.5 made the bytes go away:
Thanks for confirming. Here's this fix we'll use: >From 6658990cc39e81f6b3594cd6536569c4da53a604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:21:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Avoid spurious test failures due to buggy ncurses-5.6. * tests/test-lib.sh: Also unset TERM. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- tests/test-lib.sh | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/test-lib.sh b/tests/test-lib.sh index 170573d..8370963 100644 --- a/tests/test-lib.sh +++ b/tests/test-lib.sh @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ export LANG LC_ALL TZ # CDPATH into the environment unset CDPATH +# Avoid spurious test failures due to buggy ncurses-5.6. +unset TERM + # Each test should start with something like this, after copyright notices: # # test_description='Description of this test... _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
