Re: Linux-2.1.109.. preliminary code freeze.

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 22:40:49 +0200


> > Right - if you're looking at old output (Shift+PgUp), and you type
> > something, you aren't automatically taken back to current, as in pre-fb
> > kernels. Aside from that, it seems to work well now.
>
> Does that mean that finally output on an inactive console won't screw
> up scrollback on the active one any more? If yes, please don't "fix"
> that, it's not a bug but a long needed feature. IMHO.
> (You know what I mean when you use scrollback much and have syslogd
> writing *.* on /dev/tty12.)

The original post was about _typing_, not _writing_ to console.

Have a nice fortnight

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