NetBSD Problem Report #404

From gnats  Tue Aug  9 07:47:08 1994
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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 10:42:15 -0400
From: sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us
Reply-To: sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us
To: gnats-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Control-Meta-Space busted with PCVT_META_ESC and PCVT_NULLCHARS set
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>Number:         404
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Meta-Control-Space broken with PCVT_META_ESC and PCVT_NULLCHARS set
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 09 07:50:05 +0000 1994
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jul 07 13:06:12 +0000 2000
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 07 13:06:12 +0000 2000
>Originator:     Bill Sommerfeld
>Release:        1.0_BETA
>Organization:
"	"
>Environment:

System: NetBSD orchard.medford.ma.us 1.0_BETA NetBSD 1.0_BETA (ORCHARD) #6: Sun Aug 7 13:54:11 EDT 1994 sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us:/u1/nsys/sys/arch/i386/compile/ORCHARD i386


>Description:
	Meta-Control-Space should (theoretically) send ESC NUL if
	PCVT_NULLCHARS and PCVT_META_ESC are defined; in reality,
	it just sends ESC.

	Because of the grody encoding hack used by sgets() to
	implement PCVT_NULLCHARS (if the first character is a null, send it),
	there isn't a trivial one-line fix.
>How-To-Repeat:
	in a kernel with PCVT_NULLCHARS and PCVT_META_ESC, type a
	M-C-SPC to emacs.
>Fix:
	none yet; perhaps change sgetc to return a count (through a pointer
	argument) as well as a string, like it should have to
	begin with.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
State-Changed-By: jtc
State-Changed-When: Thu Dec 22 10:03:28 1994
State-Changed-Why:
PR forwarded to Hellmuth, who responded:
	Moved into pcvt's "BugList" file since i have no solution for
	it yet. I'm close to working on a new keyboard mapping
	structure where this problem too will be fixed.

	The problem is that strings mapped to keys have a "\0" as an
	end of string delimiter instead of a count of chars in a
	map-string. This is a known annoying mis-design of pcvt which
	will hopefully fixed in the near future.

PR suspended until a fixed version of pcvt is available.

State-Changed-From-To: suspended->feedback 
State-Changed-By: fair 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 6 11:59:04 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Has this problem been solved by either a new rev of PCVT since '94, 
or by wscons? 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->suspended  
State-Changed-By: sommerfeld 
State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 5 07:31:24 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
pcvt is on its way out; marked suspended.. close it when pcvt goes away for  
good.... 

Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->port-i386-maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-By: fair 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 28 09:48:06 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This PR is the responsibility of the portmaster, 
not the GNATS database administrator. 

From: "Erik E. Fair" <fair@clock.org>
To: NetBSD GNATS Bug Tracking System <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: port-i386/404
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 23:57:48 -0700

 Is not this PR moot now that PCVT has been declared dead & buried?

 	Erik <fair@clock.org>
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: sommerfeld 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 7 06:05:49 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
pcvt is dead! long live wscons! 
>Unformatted:

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