Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56496; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/56496: etcupdate(8) merge formatting issue
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:38:07 +0000 (UTC)

 On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Hauke Fath wrote:
 
 > Even when all 'tset -Qs' is supposed to do is produce shell-specific=20
 > command strings for setting TERM?
 >
 
 Unfortunately, yes. One has to do `tset -Qs -` to make tset not
 send the term init sequences. You can check this by running both
 command variants under script.
 
 > Except I ran all the printf... and sdiff... tests as a regular user. No=20
 > su(1) involved.
 >
 
 If that tset command is in /etc/csh.login, then all (login-shell) uses of
 csh would show this issue--provided `-oxtabs' is _also_ set. In some
 instances it is not, and that would also account for why some folks see
 this issue and others do not.
 
 And, since this tab-setting stuff is an xterm feature, once set, will
 propagate to affect other command run in that session--sh for instance
 will appear to suffer this issue as well even when its .rc scripts are
 not running tset at all.
 
 Hope this helps...
 
 -RVP