Re: possible new debconf interface
Adam Heath wrote:
> How about, instead of having debconf use an always open descriptor, it uses a
> named pipe, and opens and closes when it needs to? That seems like a
> similiarly small enough change to the library, and, as a bonus, fixes this
> descriptor inheritance problem. Just populate the aformentioned DEBCONF_PIPE
> environment variable with the name of the pipe.
Do you mean a pair of fifos (ugly), or a socket (hard for a shell script
to use)?
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