Re: [PATCH 0/2] Persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

From: Jakub Wilk
Date: Mon Apr 18 2016 - 17:59:32 EST


* Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx>, 2016-04-18, 21:56:
To offer a way for userland tools to flush the buffer my second patch adds a ioctl call for that.

In f8df13e0a901fe55631fed66562369b4dba40f8b, the escape sequence \e[3J was added, which erases the whole display including the scroll-back buffer. So the new ioctl shouldn't be necessary.

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Jakub Wilk