[PATCH] vt_ioctl: make VT_RESIZEX behave like VT_RESIZE

Martin Hostettler textshell at uchuujin.de
Mon Sep 28 17:59:56 UTC 2020


On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:46:30PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> VT_RESIZEX was introduced in Linux 1.3.3, but it is unclear that what
> comes to the "+ more" part, and I couldn't find a user of VT_RESIZEX.
> 

It seems this is/was used by "svgatextmode" which seems to be at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console/

Not sure if that kind of software still has a chance to work nowadays.

 - Martin Hostettler


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