[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#670585: "ok hat location is writable"

[Joey Hess]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: normal

This is an excerpt of my console during boot, exactly as it originally
appeared, except without the colors.

[info] Will now check all file systems.
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
Checking all file systems.
[....] Done checking file systems. A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs
[ ok hat location is writable..
[ ok ] Will now mount local filesystems:.

I think this is why every other implementation of fancy status indicators
puts them at the end of the line, rather than assuming that the script
output does not span to another line, which will result in absurdities
when partially overwritten.

(FWIW, another reason not to do it is that it probably makes line-based screen
readers do something annoying. I imagine one would probably read boot lines
twice.)

-- 
see shy jo, trusting that the maintainer's hat location is
            writable WRT changing this.. ;-)
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