[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Hey wrote:
> * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:12 +0200]:
> > Carsten Hey wrote:
> > > Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new users
> > > is used.
> >
> > Why? This is a very annoying behaviour IMHO and definitely shouldn't
> > be a default.
> 
> at first we should make sure that you are talking about the same console
> as I do:  I consider everything that runs in X not to be a console, but
> the thing you get if you press for example Ctrl-Alt-F1 is a console.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

I'm mostly annoyed by such behaviour upon remote logins via SSH as
usually the whole terminal history gets lost in such cases.

> I wonder if you still think that it's annoying if you know, that it only
> clears a console if, and only if, the parent process is /bin/login.

Does SSH use /bin/login by default? (IIRC not.)

So if it's really just for the Linux (or FreeBSD or Hurd :-) virtual
console, I'm fine with it. There it indeed makes sense. Just not for
SSH logins or calling "zsh" or "zsh -l" for testing purposes from
another zsh instance (as I do very often before zsh uploads :-).

> It's about the (recommended) user's configuration, no one will ever add
> this to a *global* zsh config file that is shipped with Debian.

Ok, thanks for that clarification, too. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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