On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:26 +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:31:37AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Also see:
> > 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/289
> > 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/297
> > 
> > These posts argue about terminfo being the culprit. But how can terminfo 
> > be at fault, when `echo -en "\ec"` triggers it too?
> > 
> > Since I am in a patch mood, here's my stance/patch, which is compile and 
> > run tested and behaves as expected (both with `echo` and `reset`).
> 
> ...
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/char/vt.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/drivers/char/vt.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/char/vt.c
> > @@ -1518,7 +1518,6 @@ static void reset_terminal(struct vc_dat
> >  	vc->vc_charset		= 0;
> >  	vc->vc_need_wrap	= 0;
> >  	vc->vc_report_mouse	= 0;
> > -	vc->vc_utf		= 0;
> >  	vc->vc_utf_count	= 0;
> >  
> >  	vc->vc_disp_ctrl	= 0;
> > #<EOF>
> 
> Is it OK to do that? I recall when I was originally looking at the code
> I didn't want to just remove that line, because it looked like that was
> being used to first initialise the vc* structure when it is created, as
> well as reset it every time. Doesn't this leave vc->vc_utf uninitialised
> when a new VC is allocated?

That's true.  We can move the line vc->vc_utf = 0; in vc_init()
instead. 

Tony