From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: handle Ctrl-D during prompts
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:31:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111110083113.GA10573@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320876946-27643-1-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 04:15:46PM -0600, Bill Kendall wrote:
> xfsdump does not currently handle Ctrl-D well during a dialog
> prompt. If some text is entered followed by Ctrl-D, an assert
> will trip because xfsdump expects a new-line character at the
> end of the user's input (or if asserts are disabled, the last
> character the user entered will be dropped).
>
> If Ctrl-D is entered without entering any response, some dialog
> callers (e.g., tree_subtree_inter()) will abort because they
> receive an unexpected response code.
>
> This patch changes xfsdump to treat Ctrl-D as if the user hit
> enter. User input (if any) will be passed back to the caller,
> and a new line will be echoed to the terminal.
Shouldn't Ctrl+D cause us to ignore the input that was added
before? That's what I would expect from command line applications.
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2011-11-09 22:15 [PATCH] xfsdump: handle Ctrl-D during prompts Bill Kendall
2011-11-10 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-10 16:39 ` Bill Kendall
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