Hello,

since some time I have the problem that on some machines that programs
(f.i. irssi) do not resize when I change the terminal size. At first I had
the idea that this has something to do with the shopt checkwinsize but
if I understood the manpage correctly this is only to set COLUMNS and
LINES if necessary. I don't know wether the problem only exists over ssh
because this host has no X so I cannot try locally. It already occoured
on debian sarge on this maschine and it disappeard after upgrading to
etch. But not it's the same as before (still etch).

Here is a small perl script which I wrote to see wether the application
receives a SIGWINCH.

andariel [~]> cat /tmp/sigw.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

sub got_sig {
print "Got a signal!\n";
}

$SIG{WINCH} = \&got_sig;

while (1) {
sleep (1);
}


The result is rather confusing for me. As I expected sigw.pl does not get
a WINCH signal but only with bash. When executing a csh it works and also
after executing a bash again.


andariel [~]> /tmp/sigw.pl
<<< Resizing terminal, nothing happens >>>


andariel [~]> exec csh
andariel:~> /tmp/sigw.pl
<<< Resizing terminal with csh>>>
Got a signal!

andariel:~> exec bash
andariel [~]> /tmp/sigw.pl
<<< Resizing terminal with bash again >>>
Got a signal!

andariel [~]>


Can anyone give me a hint why it behaves like that? These are the things
I already tried but none of them did help:
- trying another terminal (xterm, Eterm instead of aterm)
- using a friends pc (and account) to make sure that the problem is not
on my local environment.
- logging in with a new user account with default settings
- compiling the latest bash from http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
- downgrading the bash to the debian package which was installed right
after the etch update.
- setting checkwinsize by hand in all involved shells

The same problem occures on another box with debian sarge.

Here some details of my currently installed bash (official debian
package):

andariel [~]> echo $BASH_VERSION
3.1.17(1)-release
andariel [~]> cat /etc/debian_version
4.0
andariel [~]> apt-cache policy bash
bash:
Installed: 3.1dfsg-8
Candidate: 3.1dfsg-8
Version table:
*** 3.1dfsg-8 0
500 http://debian.informatik.uni-erlangen.de etch/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
andariel [~]>

If you have any ideas what causes this behavior or if you just need some
more information concering my system or environment which might help to
solve this problem please let my know.

Thanks in advance,
Rainer