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Re: fixing debconf stdin bug



On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:08:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:

> Right, I'm fairly sure that at least a few daemons have been modified
> for debian, perhaps changed to close only fd 3, and would trip over this
> sort of change. 

There will be a number of daemons that will only close file descriptors
0, 1 and 2 (I know at least one of my packages does this).  Using
db_stop before starting the daemon handles the Debconf control fd.

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