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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > No thanks.  That breaks my build scripts.  I don't want to go logging into
> > multiple machines just to run make oldconfig when the old system worked
> > perfectly well.
> > 
> > "perfectly well" here means that make oldconfig worked over ssh, with the
> > local end logging the stdout to a file as well as the terminal, with stdin
> > from the terminal.  It is quite reasonable to expect the configuration to
> > continue as normal.
> 
> Huh? What do you mean? oldconfig still works as before, above only happens 
> if you touch .config or a Kconfig file, kconfig tries to automatically 
> update .config and will fail if stdio is redirected, but needs user input.
> The problem is not a missing fflush, the question is why kconfig couldn't 
> detect the pipe.

ssh host make -C $tree oldconfig ARCH=arm

that doesn't allocate a terminal.  I want such commands to _prompt_ for
input.  If they die because its not a terminal, I consider that _broken_.
Why?  The command is able to read input from a human, and write its output
to a human via the ssh pipes.

If you insist on breaking this, I'll insist on fixing it.  Its a misfeature
that you refuse to run in this situation.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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