Re: [PATCH] base-files: profile: Get rid of "resize"

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 18-09-17 21:19, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 18 September 2017 at 20:01, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com 
> <mailto:armccurdy@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > The question is does it do something useful *now*?
> 
>     I don't have a board with a serial console to test at the moment.
>     Busybox hasn't changed in recent memory though, so as long as the
>     resize command does actually get run I presume it's still going to
>     work.
> 
> 
> Re-read the code.  There's a call to ioctl with TIOCSWINSZ which I'm 
> *guessing* is set window size.  Google is not useful for this!  It does all 
> this on stderr.
> 

Google on TIOCSWINSZ yields:
https://linux.die.net/man/4/tty_ioctl

TIOCSWINSZ
const struct winsize *argp
     Set window size.

Of course, there is no explanation on what a "set window size" is supposed to 
accomplish on the terminal device.


> So yes it *should* work, but not if you redirect stderr to /dev/null.

Yep.


Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
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