When asking question and stdin is piped, the response does not get printed out, resulting in a missing \n and broken output (FS#27909); printing the response fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <[email protected]> --- src/pacman/util.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c index 2d88bac..876a15b 100644 --- a/src/pacman/util.c +++ b/src/pacman/util.c @@ -1429,6 +1429,13 @@ static int question(short preset, char *fmt, va_list args) if(len == 0) { return preset; } + + /* if stdin is piped, response does not get printed out, and as a result + * a \n is missing, resulting in broken output (FS#27909) */ + struct stat sb; + if (fstat(STDIN_FILENO, &sb) == 0 && S_ISFIFO(sb.st_mode)) { + fprintf(stream, "%s\n", response); + } if(strcasecmp(response, _("Y")) == 0 || strcasecmp(response, _("YES")) == 0) { return 1; -- 1.7.8.3
