GNU bug report logs - #57727
29.0.50; Optimize tty display updates

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Message #31 received at 57727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 57727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57727: 29.0.50; Optimize tty display updates
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:15:06 +0200

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> FWIW, I don't think this is over-engineered.  The suspend/resume dance
>> caused me to raise a brow, but I guess you cannot otherwise reset the
>> terminal settings?
>
> I'll check if can find a way to not suspend/resume.  In principle, it
> should be possible to fflush/fclose/fopen/setvbuf, but I have to check
> if that is sufficient.  Suspend/resume looked a cheap hack to get what I
> wanted.

I'm afraid that doesn't work well.

The problem is that a setvbuf with a new buffer size requires an fclose,
by the C standard.  The fclose closes the file handle used with fdopen,
so we have to go through all what suspend/resume already do.

Too bad.

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