On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Olivier Brunel <i.am.jack.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
When asking question and stdin is piped, the response does not get printed out, resulting in a missing \n and broken output (FS#27909); printing the response fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <i.am.jack.mail@gmail.com> --- src/pacman/util.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c index 2d88bac..876a15b 100644 --- a/src/pacman/util.c +++ b/src/pacman/util.c @@ -1429,6 +1429,13 @@ static int question(short preset, char *fmt, va_list args) if(len == 0) { return preset; } + + /* if stdin is piped, response does not get printed out, and as a result + * a \n is missing, resulting in broken output (FS#27909) */ + struct stat sb; + if (fstat(STDIN_FILENO, &sb) == 0 && S_ISFIFO(sb.st_mode)) { + fprintf(stream, "%s\n", response); + } Noticing that our usual strategy is to use the isatty() function, e.g., if(isatty(fileno(stdin))) { xxx }
We probably want to stick with this convention if possible, especially since we are already using that convention in flush_term_input() which is called from question(). Otherwise this looks like the right approach. Thanks! (And minor note- please read HACKING for info on 'if(' vs 'if (' coding convention.)
if(strcasecmp(response, _("Y")) == 0 || strcasecmp(response, _("YES")) == 0) { return 1; -- 1.7.8.3