Re: [Bug-readline] Bug report: Unwanted output on stdout from rl_initialize()

[Chet Ramey]

Glen Coates wrote:

> By recompiling python, I managed to trace the output to rl_initialize():
> 
> <test.c>
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <readline/readline.h>
> #include <readline/history.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>     rl_initialize();
>     printf( "hello\n" );
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> $ ./test | od -tc
> 0000000 033   [   ?   1   0   3   4   h   h   e   l   l   o  \n
> 
> I'm using the readline library shipped with Fedora 7 (readline-5.2-4.fc7
> ).  I have never seen this in previous versions of Fedora.
> 
> Could you please confirm whether or not this is a bug in readline, or
> rl_initialize() is being used incorrectly and thus a bug report should
> be made to the Python project?

I can't reproduce the problem with my environment, but the string
preceding the `hello' looks a lot like a terminal escape sequence.

Since you've distilled the problem case to a short program, you should
be able to run that under gdb, set a breakpoint in `write', wait for it
to be hit, and get a stack backtrace with `where'.  If you hit the
breakpoint before you're writing the `hello', send me the backtrace
and I'll take a look.

Chet

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