Re: debconf & daemons

1999-11-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:07:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > The tutorial of debconf reads: > > Your postinst uses debconf and starts a daemon that doesn't close > > all inherited file descriptors (all such daemons are buggy, > > really). This makes debconf hang, because the debconf f

debconf & daemons

1999-10-30 Thread guido . guenther
Hi, The tutorial of debconf reads: > Your postinst uses debconf and starts a daemon that doesn't close > all inherited file descriptors (all such daemons are buggy, > really). This makes debconf hang, because the debconf frontend > waits for the daemon to close the fd's before continuing. > Note >