Re: [PATCH 15/15] kconf: Check for eof from input stream.

[Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 21:59 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > 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 "").
> 
> Then let's fix the real problem.

That's not entirely acceptable. The reason this shows up is if an
automatic build is being done, and the config files are not up-to-date,
the prefered action is a build failure, not selecting defaults. The
reason for my fix was that instead of filling up diskspace with a
logfile of kconf's infinite loop, we just exit with an error.

Currently, this is the only way to ensure that these issues don't go
unnoticed.

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   Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
   Developer
   Ubuntu Linux