Justus Winter, on Mon 22 Feb 2016 16:48:04 +0100, wrote: > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2016-02-14 22:09:37) > > We have various issues with the active translators' stdout/stderr: > > > > - When mounting /proc from /etc/init.d/rc, stdout/stderr is closed, and > > thus as soon as e.g. mtab reports a warning, it gets SIGLOST and dies. > > I don't think that is correct. Both mount and settrans use > fshelp_start_translator, and that spawns a process with stdin/stdout > closed, and stderr inheriting the stderr of the current process. So > unless rc is run with stderr closed, mtab should be able to print > messages to stderr. > > > - When mounting the cdrom image from debian installer scripts, the > > script is not considered finished since the isofs translator is still > > running and possibly emitting output. > > Shouldn't bla=$(blubb) only care for blubbs stdout?
I haven't actually investigated the precise details in both cases, but be it one way or the other, we have an issue to fix there. samuel
