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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2017 08:18:55 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>, Edward Tomasz =?iso-8859-2?Q?Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial line terminal size.
Message-ID:  <1496067535.95269.1.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABh_MKkO2N6p6-b-X4HS1xqxKn02xh6_b8C0MJ=DPrkyCrpdmg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20170524085514.GA4210@brick> <CABh_MKkO2N6p6-b-X4HS1xqxKn02xh6_b8C0MJ=DPrkyCrpdmg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 13:22 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> 2017-05-24 10:55 GMT+02:00 Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz@freebsd.org
> >:
> > 
> > There's a problem with serial consoles - after logging in, the
> > terminal
> > size is not set, ie it looks like this (notice the "0 rows; 0
> > columns;"):
> Wouldn't it make more sense for getty to set this up properly, as
> opposed to putting it in all of the shell rc files?
> 

I was thinking exactly the same thing a few days ago, but then I looked
at the source code to getty and kinda backed away slowly and quietly,
as one might do with any sleeping monster.

-- Ian




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