RE: Question about TIOCSWINSZ

"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:32:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.specification
Message-ID <A06801158AE07847B27A52C1A074BC1D08B0A143@fmsmsx404.amr.corp.intel.com>
It would be good to file a fresh bug on this as well.
I just got pestered by someone else on this in the
last two weeks. (Actually, there doesn't seem to be
an existing bug that mentions this, closed or not).


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	From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marvin Heffler
	Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:32 AM
	To: [email protected]
	Subject: RE: [lsb-spec] Question about TIOCSWINSZ
	
	

	OK. For now I will handle this via a patch to readline where it
defines TIOCSWINSZ itself if it is not already defined. 
	
	Regards,
	
	Marvin Heffler
	Linux Standard Base
	IBM Linux Technology Center
	11501 Burnet Road, Zip 905-7A017
	Austin, TX 78758
	(512) 838-0953    T/L 678-0953 
	
	"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> wrote on
09/16/2005 10:02:23 AM:
	
	> It was left out on purpose, and Stuart feels quite strongly
about it. 
	> However, given the frequency of use, plus the symmetry with an

	> ioctl we do have, I'm still not sure I'm convinced. 
	> 
	> I have been working with the readline library adding it to the

	> appbat libbat in order for python to build properly on s390x
and 
	> have run into the situation where readline needs TIOCSWINSZ to
be 
	> defined in order to compile. We have TIOCGWINSZ in the spec,
but not
	> TIOCSWINSZ. Does anyone know if TIOCSWINSZ was left out on
purpose, 
	> or is it just an oversight?

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