Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:26:46 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm
>> running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the file
>> descriptors, I think.
>
>> I call stop() as soon as I'm done interfacing with debconf, but that
>> doesn't seem to be good enough when I get to ucf. First, I tried
>
>> system("/usr/bin/ucf $tmpfile $realfile");
>
>> but that hung due to ucf listening on but not receiving anything
>> from fd 0.
>
>
> This may be a stupid question, but do you get the same
> behaviour when you try:
> system '/usr/bin/ucf', "$tmpfile", "$realfile";Yes. Attaching an strace shows: read(0, -- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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