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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:21:30 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject:   Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH
Message-ID:  <4AE13D5A.6040608@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <ea2d4a5b0910222102w1269d071o221a42e9ee85f5b7@mail.gmail.com>
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Antony Mawer skrev:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best
> <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>> hi everyone,
>>
>> together with hugh mahon (the author of ee) i've been trying to fix a nasty
>> bug in ee. for some reason ee exits (not crashes) and leaves the console
>> corrupted when receiving SIGWINCH (`killall -SIGWINCH ee` should exit all
>> running ee instances).
> 
> I noticed this the other day when working on a new 8.0-RC1 system...
> in my case I was using putty (Windows ssh client) to access the system
> and maximised the window I had ee running in, and noticed ee just
> dumped me straight to the prompt.
> 
> I am wondering if this has anything to do with the new tty subsystem
> in 8.0, as this wasn't a problem I've experienced before under 7.x...

I've been using ee in Mac OSX for a while and I see the exact same behaviour, 
ee exits when I resize the terminal window.  I haven't seen it in FreeBSD yet, 
but that is probably because I don't use Xorg on any of my FreeBSD systems...

-- 
Joel



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