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Date:      Wed, 4 May 2016 08:09:35 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        cem@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r297897 - in head/usr.bin: . resizewin
Message-ID:  <4B76AE63-52CA-4E2D-B35C-31EF8A195789@dons.net.au>
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Also, it's not functionally identical to the xterm version which could cause=
 an issue for some users.

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards
is there are so many to choose
from." - Andrew Tanenbaum

> On 4 May 2016, at 07:58, Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:42:54PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> C> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Conrad E. Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
>> C> > Log:
>> C> >   Add a small tool, resizewin(1), to query terminal for window size
>> C>
>> C> Whoops.  The commit message should have included this blurb from the
>> C> phabricator review:
>> C>
>> C>     This tool is a smaller, less featured version of resize from the x=
term port.
>> C>
>> C>     It's very useful when accessing systems via serial console that
>> C> don't run X (e.g. dev boxes).
>>=20
>> Are there any good reasons not to call it resize then? Those who have
>> xterm installed would have it overriden with /usr/local/bin/resize.
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I don't think it's a good idea to name different binaries the same
> thing and rely on PATH ordering to pick the right one.  And it would
> introduce a conflict for LOCALBASE=3D/usr.
>=20
> Best,
> Conrad




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