173773 – app-shells/tcsh ebuild stalls if not run in a tty

Bug 173773 - app-shells/tcsh ebuild stalls if not run in a tty

Summary: app-shells/tcsh ebuild stalls if not run in a tty

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Fabian Groffen

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Reported:	2007-04-08 16:26 UTC by Mathieu Seigneurin
Modified:	2007-04-10 18:38 UTC (History)
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Description Mathieu Seigneurin 2007-04-08 16:26:33 UTC

There seems to be a bug in the tcsh.man2html perl script in tcsh-6.14-r3 at least that makes it misbehave if it is called without parameters and its STDIN is not a tty => it will wait on input from STDIN wich:
1. will be EOF if emerge is run </dev/null => generated docs are empty
2. will never come (hang) if emerge is run </dev/zero or some other non-readready fh.

Easy solution: change the line
perl tcsh.man2html || die
to
perl tcsh.man2html tcsh.man || die

This bug is triggered while installing through kuroo, but maybe other such utilities or for some people who do updates via cron or whatever.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge tcsh < /dev/zero


Actual Results:  
Emerge stalls.


Only tested tcsh-6.14-r3.ebuild

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2007-04-10 18:38:36 UTC

I fixed this in CVS as you suggested, thanks!