tags 316551 patch
thanks
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> This is a request for dpkg to clear the keyboard buffer before
> prompting the user. (Actually, how does one do that? I hope its not
> a silly related to getch().
The attached patch flushes the data received on the terminal before
prompting the user.
Kind Regards,
--
Nekral
Index: src/configure.c
===================================================================
--- src/configure.c (révision 257)
+++ src/configure.c (copie de travail)
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <assert.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <time.h>
+#include <termios.h>
#include <dpkg.h>
#include <dpkg-db.h>
@@ -553,6 +554,9 @@
}
do {
+ // Flush the terminal's input in case the user
+ // involuntarily typed some chars
+ tcflush(STDIN_FILENO, TCIFLUSH);
fprintf(stderr, _("\nConfiguration file `%s'"), cfgfile);
if (strcmp(cfgfile, realold))
fprintf(stderr,_(" (actually `%s')"), realold);
