Re: Incorrect window sizes after SIGWINCH

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:09:40PM -0500, Mason, Kody wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the redhat 5.0-12 release of ncurses inside an application that
> attempts to handle SIGWINCH signals and resize the application WINDOW
> to match the new larger or smaller size.

did redhat make the rpm have a sigwinch handler?  (sometimes they change
their package options w/o noting the reason why).   If the sigwinch hander's
there getmaxyx() would update...
 
> The problem that I see is that the getmaxyx() doesn't seem to notice the 
> change to the WINDOW size...  Even if I endwin() and initscr() after the 
> SIGWINCH happens, I still end up with the original (now incorrect) "maxyx"
> values...
> 
> Any ideas?  Am I missing something here?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kody
> 
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