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Re: Kvt bug
From: btellier () WEBLEY COM (Brock Tellier)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:50:24 -0500
----- Original Message ----- From: Pioppo <pioppo () FERRARA LINUX IT>
Wed, 29 Sep 1999, in a message titled "Kvt bug", Sebastian Wain wrote:In the xterm there is a feature to change the title of the window You can change the title of the window sending one of the escape codes
of the
xterm. (linux: man console_codes)By Example:ESC]2;This is my Xterm^GThis escape code changes the xterm's title to "This is my Xterm"Obviously You can do the same using the kvt (Kde Virtual Terminal). But the kvt has a buffer overflow. If the size of the new title of the window is big enough then the kvt will do a core dump.xterm too (version 3.3.2.3) coredumps... I tried this with echo -e "\033]2;(60e+06 times 'a')\007"
In my testing: xterm 3.3.3.1b(88b) does NOT crash Eterm 0.8.9 does NOT crash wterm 6.2.7 does NOT crash kvt 0.18.7 DOES crash konsole 0.9.10 does NOT crash rxvt 2.4.7 does NOT crash
Current thread:
- Re: Kvt bug Brock Tellier (Sep 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Kvt bug Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov (Oct 01)
- Re: Kvt bug Dominik Vogt (Oct 04)