Re: 'getty' printing delay tokens in -current and netbsd-6

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1206261037030.23580%david.technoskunk.fur@localhost>,
John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, John D. Baker wrote:
>
>> I'll see about adapting it to v1.58 (in netbsd-6 and -current) which
>> is where the problem manifests itself.
>
>The patch applied cleanly to v1.58.  Tested with wscons terminals and
>serial VT220 terminal using "vt100" in "/etc/ttys".  I see no extraneous
>printable output.
>
>Switching my VT220 terminal to "Display Controls" mode reveals that
>after the clear-screen control sequence, getty now sends a number of
>NUL bytes equal to the delay value.

I don't know if there are any functioning devices where padding makes
sense anymore, but the padding code could be made to work again, or not?

christos