Re: elusive failure in tests/stty/basic-1 on HP-UX

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Not impossible, just the result of stty thinking the console is
> > very narrow.  You can reproduce the problem by running this:
> > 
> >   stty columns 1; stty -a; stty columns 80
> 
> Ah!  Now I see.  Yes, that looks like it.

Here is some more background for the mail archive.  I can periodically
detect that on HP-UX sometimes the rows and columns are reported as
both zero from the tty driver with stty -a.  If I resize the terminal
then this resets them to normal values.  If I run "eval `resize`" then
it restores them to normal values.

This does not happen very often but very infrequently I notice this
problem when creating a new xterm terminal window.  I think that it is
in one of those cases where rows = 0; columns = 0; that it was causing
the tests to fail, as you describe.

> > Thanks a lot for tracking that down.
> > With all of your analysis, I think we can fix it now.
> > I've made this change:
> 
> That works for me.  Thanks!

Thanks again,
Bob