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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=473cbd6a163eb685ec1fbd5301224c2964d7efb4 commit 473cbd6a163eb685ec1fbd5301224c2964d7efb4 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed Oct 3 04:37:35 2018 +0200 libdpkg: Set stdout to be fully buffered when using a pager Force the output to fully buffered, because originally stdout was a tty, so it was set as line buffered. This way we send as much as possible to the pager, which will handle the output by itself. --- debian/changelog | 1 + lib/dpkg/pager.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 359d23f6b..616491dfb 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ dpkg (1.19.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * libdpkg: Ignore SIGPIPE when setting up a pager, and then ignore EPIPE errors when writing to stdout, otherwise if we quit the pager early, the program will exit with an error code. + * libdpkg: Set stdout to be fully buffered when using a pager. * Perl modules: - Dpkg::OpenPGP: Ignore Version field in enarmored output. Fixes CPAN#127217. diff --git a/lib/dpkg/pager.c b/lib/dpkg/pager.c index ed41daedb..b2dad68b4 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/pager.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/pager.c @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ pager_spawn(const char *desc) close(pager->pipe[0]); close(pager->pipe[1]); + /* Force the output to fully buffered, because originally stdout was + * a tty, so it was set as line buffered. This way we send as much as + * possible to the pager, which will handle the output by itself. */ + setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOFBF, 0); + return pager; } -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
