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Found a glitch in Maemo 5's terminal...strange characters
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danramos
2010-11-11 , 22:20
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Yeah, what you're seeing with urandom is just a stream of random 8-bit characters vomiting out on the terminal, which then tries to interpret the characters as output. Since VT100/ANSI/etc all depend on several ways to encode controls, there's a likely chance that random characters coming from urandom will trigger an escape code sequence that causes a mode-change of some sort. Hence, you get the symptoms of the funky terminal.
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