[setup] [PATCH] Redirect stdin from /dev/null when running postinstall scripts

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The patch below redirects stdin from /dev/null when running postinstall
> scripts, so that installation doesn't hang if a program called from a
> postinstall script decides to ask the user something.  AFAICS, this is
> against the CVS HEAD.

But then what happens with the script that requested user input ? Isn't it
possible that the package would end up misconfigured ?