I think you need to go talk to the rxvt folks. this says you're using obsd 4.5. what's the status on more recent releases?
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:43:18PM -0400, Nathan Houghton wrote: > Hello. I emailed Jason Ish about this bug, however he says that > he does not have time to work on this port. > > Thanks, > -Nate > > ----- Forwarded message from Nathan Houghton <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:27:42 -0400 > From: Nathan Houghton <[email protected]> > To: Jason Ish <[email protected]> > Subject: OpenBSD Port: rxvt race causes winsize of terminal to be incorrect > > Hi Jason, > > Here is a bug report for the openbsd rxvt port.. I initially > submitted it using sendbug, but was instructed to send it on to > you. > > >Number: 6450 > >Category: ports > >Synopsis: rxvt race causes winsize of terminal to be > incorrect > >Confidential: yes > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: bugs > >State: closed > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: unknown > >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 21 17:20:01 GMT 2010 > >Closed-Date: Sat Aug 21 11:42:46 MDT 2010 > >Last-Modified: Sat Aug 21 11:42:46 MDT 2010 > >Originator: > >Release: > >Organization: > >Environment: > System : OpenBSD 4.5 > Details : OpenBSD 4.5-stable (GENERIC) #2: Tue Aug 17 > 23:04:08 EDT 2010 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > > Architecture: OpenBSD.i386 > Machine : i386 > >Description: > A race condition exists in rxvt during startup that can > cause the terminal size to be set (with ioctl TIOCSWINSZ) > to the size determined by the rxvt window size, followed > by setting the terminal size to 80x24, resulting in a > large > rxvt window that has only an 80x24 size terminal usable > inside. > >How-To-Repeat: > Use a window manager such as scrotwm that will > immediately > resize the terminal window when it is launched. Simply > launch rxvt. Inside rxvt run something like vi, or use > TIOCGWINSZ to get the terminal size. It will be set to > 80x24. After a window resize the terminal size will be > corrected. > >Fix: > > Don't call rxvt_tt_winsize in both processes during > initialization. > > --- src/init.c.orig Sat Aug 21 00:30:38 2010 > +++ src/init.c Sat Aug 21 00:30:56 2010 > @@ -1316,6 +1316,9 @@ > /* need to trap SIGURG for SVR4 (Unixware) rlogin */ > /* signal (SIGURG, SIG_DFL); */ > > +/* set window size */ > + rxvt_tt_winsize(STDIN_FILENO, r->TermWin.ncol, > r->TermWin.nrow); > + > #ifndef __QNX__ > /* spin off the command interpreter */ > switch (r->h->cmd_pid = fork()) { > @@ -1398,9 +1401,6 @@ > } > #endif /* SRIOCSREDIR */ > } > - > - /* set window size */ > - rxvt_tt_winsize(STDIN_FILENO, r->TermWin.ncol, > r->TermWin.nrow); > > /* reset signals and spin off the command interpreter */ > signal(SIGINT, SIG_DFL); > > > -Nate > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
