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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:04:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/1381: /bin/csh doesn't handle SIGWINCH correctly
Message-ID:  <199607121704.TAA18867@keltia.freenix.fr>
Resent-Message-ID: <199607121710.KAA27044@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         1381
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       When one resizes an xterm window, $TERMCAP doesn't change
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 12 10:10:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ollivier Robert
>Organization:
Usenet Canal Historique
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #14: Thu Jul 11 22:38:57 MET DST 1996     roberto@keltia.freenix.fr:/src/src/sys/compile/DKELTIA  i386

-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  266240 Jul 12 01:49 /bin/csh*

CURRENT from 1996 07/11 14:00:01, ctm#2220 from cvs-cur.

>Description:

/bin/csh as   shipped in  2.2-CURRENT  (and   probably  2.1-STABLE and  the
forthcoming  2.1.5-RELEASE) doesn't   support or  is  bug  in its  SIGWINCH
handling. Windows size changes are not shown  in the environment, resulting
in problems with many programs.

The bug is present in  2.2-CURRENT (as shown) and  in 2.1-RELEASE (as shown
to me by a friend of mine). 

>How-To-Repeat:

Here is an xterm, 80x24 wide and the shell used is /bin/csh.

TERMCAP=xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator (X window system):li#24:hs:ts=\E[?E\E[?%i%dT:fs=\E[?F:es:ds=\E[?E:is=\E>\E[?1;3;4;5l\E[?7;8h\E[1;65r\E[65;1H:rs=\E>\E[?1;3;4;5l\E[?7;8h:@7=\E[4~:kh=\E[1~:kI=\E[2~:k0=\E[10~:kD=\E[3~:k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:kP=\E[5~:kN=\E[6~:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOy:K3=\EOu:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:mi:dc=\E[P:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:DC=\E[%dP:do=\E[B:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:nw=\EE:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:sr=\EM:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:UP=\E[%dA:DO=\E[%dB:RI=\E[%dC:LE=\E[%dD:ct=\E[3g:st=\EH:co#80:le=^H:bs:am:if=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:ac=llmmkkjjuuttvvwwqqxxnnpprr``aa:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=\177:ho=\E[H:pt:vt#3:xn:ta=^I:ms:bl=^G:cr=^M:eo:it#8:ut:

Note  li#24 and co#80.   Resize the window to something   else. I choose to
change it to 50x42. 

After doing it, the environment is

TERMCAP=xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator (X window system):li#24:hs:ts=\E[?E\E[?%i%dT:fs=\E[?F:es:ds=\E[?E:is=\E>\E[?1;3;4;5l\E[?7;8h\E[1;65r\E[65;1H:rs=\E>\E[?1;3;4;5l\E[?7;8h:@7=\E[4~:kh=\E[1~:kI=\E[2~:k0=\E[10~:kD=\E[3~:k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:kP=\E[5~:kN=\E[6~:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOy:K3=\EOu:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:mi:dc=\E[P:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:DC=\E[%dP:do=\E[B:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:nw=\EE:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:sr=\EM:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:UP=\E[%dA:DO=\E[%dB:RI=\E[%dC:LE=\E[%dD:ct=\E[3g:st=\EH:co#80:le=^H:bs:am:if=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:ac=llmmkkjjuuttvvwwqqxxnnpprr``aa:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=\177:ho=\E[H:pt:vt#3:xn:ta=^I:ms:bl=^G:cr=^M:eo:it#8:ut:

Note that neither li# nor co# has changed.

>Fix:
	
Unknown, maybe borrow  code from tcsh   which handle this rightly.  This is
probably the   reason why many   people will never  see  the bug, not being
foolish enough to use pure csh :-)


>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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