Re: Kvt bug

From: Pioppo (pioppoat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 02:56:48 PDT

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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^G

>This 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"

Konsole seems to resist even with a so long string.

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