Re: question about terminal mode after fork and before exec

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:06:51PM -0500, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> 
> a question for ncurses gurus:
> 
> My app has an ncurses window running.  The main process does a fork(),
> redirects stderr, and then execvp().  If I write to stderr after the fork
> and before the exec, the output text is wrappered in escape codes that I
> assume are related to window handling.  This text is redirected to a log 
> file, so the escape codes in the log file are a bug.
> 
> An example of the output text is:
>         ^MESC[38BESC[1m> execvp: No such file or directory^MESC[m

actually the escape sequences look as if they're coming from your shell prompt.

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