Re: [Qemu-devel] handling SIGWINCH with qemu -nographic

[Stefan Weil]

Jeff Carr schrieb:
> On 10/15/07 19:32, Paul Brook wrote:
>
>> qemu emulates a real machine. Signals are an operating system
>> concept, so your
>> question makes no sense. Configure your guest OS exactly the same way
>> you
>> would a real machine with a serial console.
>
> OK. I thought there might be a way.
I think your question is quite reasonable. Imagine a Linux host
running X Windows and a terminal like xterm or kconsole.
Then run a program like "top" or "less" in this terminal.
When a user changes the size of the console window, top, less
and other console applications get notified of this change by SIGWINCH.

Now run a similar program using QEMU's user mode emulation.
Why should it not be possible to get SIGWINCH in QEMU and
pass it on to the program in user mode emulation, so it can
behave like a native Linux application and change its appearance?

I don't think that implementing this is very difficult, so it will be
done.


Regards
Stefan