resize timeout handling / grabbing size from stderr doubt

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:20, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > >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?

You are right. It will not even work (try redirecting stdin/stderr
of current bbox resize - no go.

Why we don't do "/dev/tty"? Reasons:

a) nobody prepared patch yet ;)
b) it will be bigger than current version.
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