Comment 11 for bug 7292

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:25:17 +0200
From: Frank Lichtenheld <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: Ambrose Li <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#263270: Patch for defoma problem in sid

> child's stout and stderr get discarded. With the patch it appears to work
> as expected.

I verified the patch and uploaded a NMU with the following final
patch.

diff -Naur defoma-0.11.8.bak/debian/changelog defoma-0.11.8/debian/changelog
--- defoma-0.11.8.bak/debian/changelog 2004-05-25 13:54:25.000000000 +0200
+++ defoma-0.11.8/debian/changelog 2004-08-21 19:27:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+defoma (0.11.8-0.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ * NMU
+ * Apply patch by Jurij Smakov to fix redirecting the output
+ streams (Closes: #263270)
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <email address hidden> Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:27:43 +0200
+
 defoma (0.11.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix some typos and engrish in dfontmgr.1, closes: #234329.
diff -Naur defoma-0.11.8.bak/libs/libconsole.pl defoma-0.11.8/libs/libconsole.pl
--- defoma-0.11.8.bak/libs/libconsole.pl 2004-01-01 19:47:02.000000000 +0100
+++ defoma-0.11.8/libs/libconsole.pl 2004-08-21 19:24:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+use POSIX;
+
 my $dialog = '/usr/bin/whiptail';
 $dialog = '/usr/bin/dialog' unless (-x $dialog);

@@ -7,7 +9,8 @@
     my $pid = fork();
     if ($pid == 0) {
  close(PARENT_READER);
- open(STDERR, ">&CHILD_WRITER");
+ dup2(fileno(CHILD_WRITER),3);
+ open(STDOUT, ">&STDERR");
  exec(@_);
  die("exec failure: $_[0]");
     }
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@
 # my $item=$output;
 # chomp $item; # For gdialog, which returns strings with newlines.

- my $item = safe_redirect($dialog, '--clear', '--title',
+ my $item = safe_redirect($dialog, '--output-fd', '3', '--clear', '--title',
       $title, @options, $type, $text, $height, 80, @vars);

   $result = ($result >> 8);

Gruesse,
--
Frank Lichtenheld <email address hidden>
www: http://www.djpig.de/