Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:07:17 +0300
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:36:43 -0400
> 
> The latest wrinkle: After the latest libc change, ncurses is now assuming 
> that SIGWINCH exists.

Why does it assume that?  What feature does it test to see if SIGWINCH
is supported?

> And Readline thinks TIOCSWINSZ exists if you have TIOCGWINSZ. I'll have to 
> send the maintainer a patch to drop this assumption.

Isn't it easier to implement TIOCSWINSZ? ;-)  _set_screen_lines
already has all the machinery, and this might be the right opportunity
to get it separated from the monstrous conio.c, so programs could call
it without pulling in all the rest.