[arch-general] Seemingly archlinux specific problem with logkeys

SanskritFritz sanskritfritz at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 17:39:06 EST 2012


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dennis Herbrich <dennis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:03:56AM -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>> Huh. logkeys apparently does some stunny fuff with stdout
>> (stdout=freopen(fname, "a", stdout) instead of just fopen'ing a new
>> file) - changing that to be more "normal" fixes the problem for me.
>> Attached is my patch for this. (I'll also stick it on the issue tracker.)
>
> Yeah, I verified the issue and came to the same conclusion. Re-assigning stdout
> that way is not supposed to happen, and seemingly unnecessary, too.
>
> To actually add something to the discussion, please find my fixed PKGBUILD and
> patch for ABS attached. It's basically the same as Scott's with minor stylistic
> differences.

Guys, you rock, thank you. The maintainer already applied the patch in
the svn, I recompiled logkeys-svn, and presto logkeys works, finally.
Thanks again.


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