Is shutil.get_terminal_size useless?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-01-29, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2017-01-28, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>>
>>> (Although if I were to design an operating system, I don't know if I
>>> would bother with controlling terminals, job control or chirping
>>> modems.)
>>
>> I've been using serial ports on Unix for 35 years, and maintaining
>> serial drivers for Linux for almost 20. Many days, it seems like the
>> tty/serial API in Unix is the rug under which all the ugly dirt got
>> swept...
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> It's really pretty impressive how orthogonal they did manage to make
>> things.
>
> I *have* been longing for a serial console in linux distros.

Well, all it takes is a tweak to the bootloader to add a kernel
"command-line" parameter...

> That would make it possible to set up virtual machines from ISO
> images automatically as virtualization environments can emulate a
> serial interface with an SSH connection. As it stands, such
> automation requires ugly, brittle VNC tricks.

-- 
Grant