bug#46168: terminal-window-size breaks with ssh

[raingloom]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:55:04 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> skribis:
> 
> > Try running `ssh example.com guix pull` or something else that uses
> > progress bars. You'll get an "Inappropriate ioctl for device"
> > instead of Guix simply doing the sensible thing: disabling progress
> > bars.  
> 
> I can’t reproduce this with c852d897551f514de95c224fa79e748f48808068.
> Specifically, ‘ssh HOST guix pull’ shows me the Git progress bar
> (while updating channels), and then there are no progress bars for
> downloads but dots instead (as expected).
> 
> Which revision (as returned by ‘guix describe’) behaves like this for
> you?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Of course it does work now. :D
Looking at `guix pull --list-generations`, the last two before the bug
are:
Generation 6    Dec 13 2020 01:47:37
  guix 1adeb74
Generation 7    Jan 23 2021 16:47:02
  guix 0288e21


...aaaand I can't see later ones because guix just got killed. Maybe
the code that computes the differences between generations is not
terribly memory efficient...