gnu/137665: [patch] dialog(1) goes into tight loop on encountering eof

Stefan Bethke stb at lassitu.de
Sun Feb 27 07:31:41 UTC 2011


On:
# uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd-current.lassitu.de 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r219066: Sun Feb 27 01:55:21 CET 2011     root at freebsd-current.lassitu.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINIMAL  amd64

dialog does not go into a tight loop eating all CPU, but it still gets stuck.  I believe it should take some action on encountering EOF, instead of waiting for input forever.  My patch did that for the old dialog, typically taking the same path as pressing ESC would.


Stefan

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