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From: Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] handling SIGWINCH with qemu -nographic
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:15:29PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote:
> For those that might not be familiar with SIGWINCH, supporting it
> would allow qemu -nographic to tell when the terminal is a different
> size than 80x24.

That would need support on the remote side (the getty) as well as on the 
terminal (minicom/tip/qemu -nographic/whatever).

While this would be a nice feature (and support for propagating the 
TERM, LANG and LC_* variables might be nice, too), I'm doubtful as to 
whether this will ever happen.
-- 
Stuart Brady