> Probably this is of interrest for you: The terminal sends a SIGWINCH to > the running process when it is resized. The process then requests its > current size by an ioctl() TIOCGWINSZ to the stdout handle (0). > > You can test this in a simple shell window. Start two xterms (or which > terminal you like, now called "A" and "B") and then do an "strace -p > <pid>" in terminal A of the shell in terminal B (get its PID using "echo > $$"). Then resize terminal B with the mouse. I get the following output > of strace every time the size changes: > > read(0, 0xbffe5d3f, 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) > --- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) --- > ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=24, ws_col=80, ws_xpixel=480, ws_ypixel=312}) = 0 > write(2, "\r\33[K\33]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\7\33[44;1;31m"..., 97) = 97 > sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) > read(0, > > Bye > Hansi > Very useful. Will check into and implement.
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