svn commit: r297897 - in head/usr.bin: . resizewin

Daniel O'Connor darius at dons.net.au
Tue May 3 22:45:01 UTC 2016


Also, it's not functionally identical to the xterm version which could cause an issue for some users.

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Daniel O'Connor
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from." - Andrew Tanenbaum

> On 4 May 2016, at 07:58, Conrad Meyer <cem at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at 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 at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 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 xterm port.
>> C>
>> C>     It's very useful when accessing systems via serial console that
>> C> don't run X (e.g. dev boxes).
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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=/usr.
> 
> Best,
> Conrad



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