X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:47:24 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <004501c684ea$9aeb3f80$be32000a@idirect.net> <20060531223424.GB8176@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) In-Reply-To: <20060531223424.GB8176@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Samuel Thibault wrote: > mwoehlke, le Wed 31 May 2006 17:19:15 -0500, a écrit : >> Kenneth Nellis wrote: >>> Same here...I do my own export to get things started. --Ken >> >> Wait, wait, step back... this in itself sounds like a problem. > > 'export COLUMNS' is needed for 'printenv COLUMNS' to work, > since in the printenv case you need the variable to be > transferred to the child printenv process. Ok, that makes sense, although my understanding is that if the child process is 'bash' (including a script run by bash), then it will have a non-exported copy of the var set correctly. Or rather, it would/should if this was working at all. -- Matthew Doom doom dooM doo-DooM dOOm DOom doOM... DOOM! -- Gir -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/