Alain Schneble writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> If the ioctl call issued by the implementation always fails on >> sockets, then yes. > > On GNU/Linux (debian) the call to ioctl (fd, TIOCSWINSZ, &size) in > set_window_size returns -1 if called with a socket fd and thus fails > with errno=25 "Inappropriate ioctl for device". I guess this might be > the case on other systems as well... If we will all agree, here is a patch for the feature/async-dns branch to basically turn set-process-window-size into a "no-op" when called on network processes. And it simply makes the call to the "blocker" function obsolete as a welcome side effect.