Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

[Jakub Wilk]

* Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx>, 2014-05-30, 15:27:
> Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the 
> scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but 
> is persistent.

Some people rely on this scrollback flushing as a security feature. Is 
there even another way to clear the scrollback, than to switch to 
another vt and then back again?

Debian ships this:
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=clear_console
https://sources.debian.net/src/bash/4.2%2Bdfsg-0.1/debian/clear_console.c

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Jakub Wilk
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