From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:57:32 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: If the title string is too big then xtermTitle() can
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_pre1~518
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f14272944803045cc18cf67342984010672e28a1;p=portage.git

If the title string is too big then xtermTitle() can
misbehave by causing the terminal to echo some of the
characters and generate a "beep" sound. This is easily
triggered by doing things like `emerge world` now since
all the the atoms are expanded.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=8289
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diff --git a/pym/portage/output.py b/pym/portage/output.py
index f4e90fb8e..ff3e27171 100644
--- a/pym/portage/output.py
+++ b/pym/portage/output.py
@@ -236,6 +236,11 @@ def nc_len(mystr):
 
 def xtermTitle(mystr, raw=False):
 	if dotitles and "TERM" in os.environ and sys.stderr.isatty():
+		# If the title string is too big then the terminal can
+		# misbehave. Therefore, truncate it if it's too big.
+		max_len = 253
+		if len(mystr) > max_len:
+			mystr = mystr[:max_len]
 		myt=os.environ["TERM"]
 		legal_terms = ["xterm","Eterm","aterm","rxvt","screen","kterm","rxvt-unicode","gnome"]
 		for term in legal_terms: