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

[Stefan Bethke]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/137665; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnu/137665: [patch] dialog(1) goes into tight loop on encountering eof
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:58:09 +0100

 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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