doctor: warn about wide terminals

A terminal width of 262 or greater can trigger a buffer overflow in
curl's progress bar code, resulting in a segfault and aborted downloads.
Warn about this.

cf #8521.

Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
index 9bfc9b308..6c4dc4d43 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb
@@ -797,6 +797,20 @@ def check_git_version
   end
 end
 
+def check_terminal_width
+  if `tput cols`.chomp.to_i > 262
+    puts <<-EOS.undent
+      Your terminal width is greater than 262 columns.
+
+      This can trigger a segfault in some versions of curl, which may cause
+      downloads to appear to fail.
+
+      You may want to adjust your terminal size.
+
+    EOS
+  end
+end
+
 module Homebrew extend self
   def doctor
     old_stdout = $stdout
@@ -842,6 +856,7 @@ module Homebrew extend self
       check_git_status
       check_for_leopard_ssl
       check_git_version
+      check_terminal_width
     ensure
       $stdout = old_stdout
     end