Re: [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: don't assign `stdout' and `stderr'

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 21.10.2010 04:22, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:19:03AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>> These may not be modifiable, as per C99 comment:
>>>
>>> section 7.19.5.4, note 232:
>>> "
>>> The primary use of the freopen function is to change the file associated with a
>>> standard text stream (stderr, stdin, or stdout), as those identifiers need not
>>> be modifiable lvalues to which the value returned by the fopen function may be
>>> assigned.
>>> "
>>>
>>> Use a duplicate of stdout as ncurses' output terminal, then redirect it
>>> to /dev/null for conf_write().
>>
>> I would much rather get rid of this redirection completely. The config
>> library should not play with stdout, but let the frontends display
>> messages as they wish. This patch does it for nconfig. Nir, what do you
>> think?
>>
> any news about this ? AFAICS, it not in `kbuild/kconfig'.

Sorry, I forgot about this patch. It's merged into the kconfig branch now.

Michal