From:	"Tim 'Zastai' Van Holder" <zastai AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	FSEXT trouble (can they be bypassed)
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Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:49:49 GMT
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I've been working on porting tf (a MUD client); mostly as a way of testing
libsocket some more. Aside from the networking, there was also the
problem of the interface. Luckily, tf supports hardcoding a terminal type
(including ansi), and I remembered Eli had added a FSEXT function for
ANSI coloring for ls. I expanded on that code, so that it now offers a
fairly complete set of ANSI terminal sequences and plugged it in - but to
my surprise, it didn't work for long. Any test strings output at the start
of the program were handled correctly, but at some point, the fsext
function seems to get bypassed - it is no longer called.

Even when I put the following lines in the source code:
    // Normally this is __attribute__((constructor)), but for testing it
    // was made a normal function
    djgpp_ansi_startup ();
    printf ("\033[L\033[36mTest\033[1m\n" );
    fprintf (stdout, "\033[L\033[36mTest\033[1m\n" );
    write (STDOUT_FILENO, "\033[L\033[36mTest\033[1m\n", 17 );
    write (1, "\033[L\033[36mTest\033[1m\n", 17 );
it won't get called.

The problem seems to be that the program also uses termios calls, so
__write will just call __libc_termios_write and never use the fsext
function. Is this how it's supposed to be? And, if so, how do I get around
it? IE how do I prevent the termios hooks from being used (if that's at
all possible without breaking the program)?

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