Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gksudo
Related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599233, but
that's a "wishlist" item, while this here is a bug.
gksudo not only swallows the stderr output, it even makes the program hang
if there's too much (a pipe full, ie. 64kB) of output:
This here:
# gksudo -- perl -e 'printf STDERR "%500.500s\n", "a" for 0 .. 100'
just gets eaten, but
# gksudo -- perl -e 'printf STDERR "%500.500s\n", "a" for 0 .. 1000'
will hang indefinitely.
I could rescue my long-running program by emptying the pipe via
# sudo cat /proc/$PID_OF_SUDO_BELOW_GKSUDO/fd/2
but that's unacceptable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-22
ii libcairo2 1.14.4-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.6-2
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.1-1
ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-8+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.1-2
ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii sudo 1.8.12-1
Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii gnome-keyring 3.18.2-1
gksu suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
