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Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application



On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > IIRC, there's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses regarding WINCH.
> > 
> > Is it reported?  That's an extremely annoying bug that is asking to be
> > stomped with extreme prejudice...
> > 
> > If you're running under su, it hits really really often.
> 
> If you're su'd, signals generally are blocked.

Even WINCH?  That's surprising (to me, anyway).  I just tried it and it
seems to be working somewhat fine here (current Lenny, bash running in a
xterm), in fact I didn't manage to trigger any WINCH-related bug while
testing it, everything resized properly.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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