Re: Question about TIOCSWINSZ

"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:01:46 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.specification
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marvin Heffler wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

TIOCSWINSZ is required by pretty much any application which wants to 
emulate a login session, i.e. *ALL* terminals, screen, etc.

	-hpa