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

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Maybe. But better than setup hanging, and it's a pretty major bug in the
> package if it is doing critical user interaction in it's postinstall script.
>
> Max.

Right.  I've been toying with an idea of providing a dialog-like
interaction tool for postinstall scripts (instead of them reading from the
command line) which could be turned off with unattended installs, but it
looks like it'll be a non-trivial interaction, so I haven't done much on
it.
	Igor
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