[Debian-eeepc-commits] [SCM] Maintenance of eeepc-acpi-scripts debian package branch, master, updated. 1.1.5-46-gecd5adf

[Damyan Ivanov]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ecd5adf852d1728a19c4ddee4ff970695a9de98a
Author: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 13 17:53:06 2010 +0300

    notify: avoid staircase effect on the console
    
    'echo' only appends a line feed, but the console also needs a carriage return.
    
    Thanks to Trent W. Buck for reporting and testing.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dd09443..91cdc86 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-  * 
+  * notify: avoid staircase effect when sending notifications to the console.
+    Thanks to Trent W. Buck for reporting and testing.
 
  -- Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:51:03 +0300
 
diff --git a/etc/acpi/lib/notify.sh b/etc/acpi/lib/notify.sh
index b476b53..d602e91 100644
--- a/etc/acpi/lib/notify.sh
+++ b/etc/acpi/lib/notify.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ notify() {
     echo "$MSG"  # for /var/log/acpid
 
     if [ ! -S /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ]; then
-	echo "$MSG" > /dev/console
+        # echo's behaviour wrt "\r" is shell-dependent
+	printf "$MSG\r\n" > /dev/console
 	return
     fi
 

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