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The console dimension and cursor position are available through the /dev/vcsa interface already. However the /dev/vcsa header format uses single-byte fields therefore those values are clamped to 255. As surprizing as this may seem, some people do use 240-column 67-row screens (a 1920x1080 monitor with 8x16 pixel fonts) which is getting close to the limit. Monitors with higher resolution are not uncommon these days (3840x2160 producing a 480x135 character display) and it is just a matter of time before someone with, say, a braille display using the Linux VT console and BRLTTY on such a screen reports a bug about missing and oddly misaligned screen content. Let's add VT_GETCONSIZECSRPOS for the retrieval of console size and cursor position without byte-sized limitations. The actual console size limit as encoded in vt.c is 32767x32767 so using a short here is appropriate. Then this can be used to get the cursor position when /dev/vcsa reports 255. The screen dimension may already be obtained using TIOCGWINSZ and adding the same information to VT_GETCONSIZECSRPOS might be redundant. However applications that care about cursor position also care about display size and having 2 separate system calls to obtain them separately is wasteful. Also, the cursor position can be queried by writing "\e[6n" to a tty and reading back the result but that may be done only by the actual application using that tty and not a sideline observer. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520171851.1219676-3-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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| Makefile | ||
| conmakehash.c | ||
| consolemap.c | ||
| cp437.uni | ||
| defkeymap.c_shipped | ||
| defkeymap.map | ||
| gen_ucs_fallback_table.py | ||
| gen_ucs_recompose_table.py | ||
| gen_ucs_width_table.py | ||
| keyboard.c | ||
| selection.c | ||
| ucs.c | ||
| ucs_fallback_table.h_shipped | ||
| ucs_recompose_table.h_shipped | ||
| ucs_width_table.h_shipped | ||
| vc_screen.c | ||
| vt.c | ||
| vt_ioctl.c | ||