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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