On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 17:34 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 23:01, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > +static char *fgets_check_stream(char *s, int size, FILE *stream)
> > +{
> > + char *ret = fgets(s, size, stream);
> > +
> > + if (ret == NULL && feof(stream)) {
> > + printf(_("aborted!\n\n"));
> > + printf(_("Console input is closed. "));
> > + printf(_("Run 'make oldconfig' to update configuration.\n\n"));
> > + exit(1);
> > + }
> > +
> > + return ret;
> > +}
>
> What problem does this solve? conf should finish normally anyway and just set
> everything to the default.
It shouldn't, and it doesn't (that's what defconfig does, I believe).
Anyway, the problem is that if there is no terminal (e.g. stdout is
redirected to a file, and stdin is closed), then kconf loops forever
trying to get an answer (NULL is not the same as "").
--
Ben Collins <[email protected]>
Developer
Ubuntu Linux
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