Shawn Walker wrote:
On 31/10/2007, Nikolay Molchanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not suggesting to change stdio, I'm suggesting to change pkgrm code to use
"read(0, buf, 1);"
in loop to read 1 byte from standard input until the end of line or EOF happens.
Basically it is the same loop as it uses to write its questions:
12580: write(2, " D", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " o", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " ", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " y", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " o", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " u", 1) = 1
12580: write(2, " ", 1) = 1
...
In this case it will leave the pointer in the input file at the beginning of
next line,
so the child process will read from this point.
That seems like a lot of hackery for little benefit.
There is no "hackery". What do you mean "hackery", reading one byte? Why
writing
one byte is not a "hackery"?
And the benefits for the users are obvious: the existing behavior is
buggy and simply
unusable in non-interactive mode, because it misses the replies.
If all replies are "y", command /bin/yes can solve this problem. If some
replies should
be "n" - there is no solution.
Thanks,
Nik
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