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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: Bug report--window driver 3.51 bogosity during window switch
Message-ID: <6680@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 20:51:55 GMT
References: <10552@stb.UUCP> <761@rush.cts.com> <10581@stb.UUCP> <4789@cbmvax.UUCP> <405@amanue.UUCP> <4844@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <4844@cbmvax.UUCP> ditto@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