Re: SIGWINCH->systat

Brett Lymn <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:56:57 +1030
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:38:05PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> 1. well, ioctl(1, is not great. Unfortunatelly there is no method
>    to get the output file pointer, although it is being passed in
>    in newterm(). Maybe such a method should be added?

Sure, we can do that though, iirc there is no defined interface for
retrieving the output file pointer so we will have a(nother)
non-standard extension.

> 2. libcurses seems to do SIGWINCH and SIGTSTP frobbing in tstp.c,
>    why doesn't it work.
> 

Hmmmm I wonder why libcurses is grabbing SIGWINCH - that sounds rude.
Just looking at the patch, you will need to force a full screen
repaint and refresh once the resizeterm is done because the resizing
process nukes the old internal curses screen contents.

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Brett Lymn