Bug report--window driver 3.51 bogosity during window switch

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.UUCP
Thu Sep 29 06:51:55 AEST 1988


In article <4844 at cbmvax.UUCP> ditto at cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:

>>  I have
>>a hunch that SIGWIND is used on other systems (Suns???) in ways that might not
>>be consistent with the 3b1, though.

>Sun calls it SIGWINCH.  I would guess that the signals themselves have
>similar semantics, but a program has to do completely different things
>once it catches one (different ioctls, etc.).

I tried changing the SIGWINCHes in both JOVE and GNU emacs to SIGWINDs
with no luck at making them adjust to a resized window.  I didn't
pursue it by looking into the ioctl semantics to see if there is a 
difference in the way a program finds its new window size, though.
Has anyone worked on this?

Les Mikesell



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