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Re: 1.3.4: rxvt causes tcsh to exit when resized (nt)


On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:06:06AM -0500, Brandon Phillips wrote:
> (My apologies.  This is the message with line breaks for non-wrapping email
> clients and archive readers.)
> 
> Cygwin 1.3.4-4 under Windows XP.  rxvt 2.7.2-6, tcsh 6.10.00-3.  Default
> shell set to tcsh in /etc/passwd.  rxvt invoked via a batch file calling
> "bash --login -i -c rxvt".
> 
> Any attempt to resize the rxvt window while at the tcsh prompt will cause
> the window to disappear.  Starting bash, running another copy of tcsh and
> then attempting to resize reveals that it is causing tcsh to exit gracefully
> (the text "exit" is printed as if it had been entered as a command).
> Perhaps tcsh is incorrectly interpreting some terminal control code?
> 
> The following message board article talks about a problem that sounds
> similar.  (Hopefully tcsh isn't so neglected that such problems are ignored
> for this long...):

No, not at all.  I can reproduce that behaviour which didn't occur
in 1.3.3.  Strange enough that only tcsh has it.  Starting e.g. vim
from the tcsh prompt and then resizing inside of vim is ok and tcsh
will not exit.  That's probably a signal related problem since
resizing a window results in sending a SIGWINCH to the process group
of the sshd child process, tcsh in this case.

> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg00673.html

Ah, yes, we already had a similar problem.  Somehow tcsh is very touchy.
I will look into this.

Corinna

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