Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:36:22AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:07:21 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> > Do you agree then that adding the fifo feature to apt and adapting
> > apt-listbugs accordingly is not needed nor does it suffice for fixing #662983?
>
> No, I don't agree.
> If I recall bug #662983 correctly, the trick is that, if apt-listbugs
> can read hook info through a named pipe, then it may interact with the
> user through stdin and stdout *without* having to explicitly
> reopen /dev/tty (this is the operation which is forbidden within an su
> -c command).
Francesco, thank you for the clarification. This does make sense now.
> I think this is due to the fact that your patch for apt-listbugs does
> not modify what apt-listbugs does *after* parsing the hook info sent by
> apt.
ie. not re-open /dev/tty
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