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bug in stty

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Morris Keesan <mkeesan <at> post.harvard.edu>

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Morris Keesan <mkeesan <at> post.harvard.edu>
To: 20127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20127: bug in stty
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:33:03 -0400

stty --version:
stty (GNU coreutils) 8.13

uname -a:
Linux ice4 3.2.0-75-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 19:11:55 UTC 
2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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bug:
      stty erase ''
sets erase to <undef>.  This may be intentional, but seems like a bug, since
this behavior is undocumented, and the stty man page says,
"special values ^- or undef used to disable special characters."

I haven't bothered testing, but I assume that an empty argument gets treated
as undef for all special characters.


-- 
Morris Keesan -- mkeesan <at> post.harvard.edu
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