resize timeout handling / grabbing size from stderr doubt
Paul Fox
pgf at brightstareng.com
Thu Mar 15 13:20:43 UTC 2007
> >This leaves us with two possibilities:
> >a) write esc sequences to *stderr*, read response from stdin.
> >b) open "/dev/tty" do both writes and reads on it.
>
> ack. so a) is fine, thanks for your patience
i still think that using /dev/tty is more correct. what is the
problem you see with that? by definition the size being requested
is always for a tty, so why ask on some other fd that may or may
not be attached to a tty?
paul
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paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com
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