Bug#672361: bootlogd: escape sequences should be filtered out

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-08-12 17:45:42 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote:
> On 8/12/19 4:30 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > [2019-08-11 18:08] Jesse Smith <jsmith at resonatingmedia.com>
> >> I tried it and the "head", "cat" and "tail" commands mangle the lines
> >> of the log file when escape sequences are not escaped. Output from
> >> "less" is clean though and looks correct.
> > Interesting. Can you please send text that shows this behaviour?
> >
> Certainly. Attached is a file with the last 20 lines of the
> /var/boot/log file on a test machine. When I view the log with "less"
> the output looks normal.

With "less", it is *not* correct.

> When I run the file through "head" "tail" or "cat" the "[ ok" part
> of the message line appears at the beginning of the text.

just because text has been corrupted by bootlogd. That was *not* text
that was sent the console as documented in the bootlogd(8) man page.

FYI, with /var/log/boot.log under systemd, there is no such an issue.

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