On 2015-11-27 09:17 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Kacper Wysocki]
>> I've inserted a call to clear the screen as of today's git. This will make
>> its way to debian soon.
>
> I do not see this issue with cpm version 0.32-1. Should this bug be closed?
No. To clear the screen, cpm relies on the "clear" command from
ncurses-bin and invokes it incorrectly. Here is what it does:
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| /* really the least messy way to clear the screen.
| * If you don't believe me, check clear.c from ncurses */
| #define clear_screen() do { if(!fork()){exit(execl("/usr/bin/clear",
"clear")); }else{int s; wait(&s);}}while(0)
`----
Since ncurses version 6.0+20170827-1, /usr/bin/clear no longer ignores
arguments (see #371855), and displays an error message when invoked the
way cpm does it.
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| $ /usr/bin/clear clear
| Usage: clear [options]
|
| Options:
| -T TERM use this instead of $TERM
| -V print curses-version
| -x do not try to clear scrollback
`----
Cheers,
Sven
