Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751408AbWASMoM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:44:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751411AbWASMoL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:44:11 -0500 Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]:32446 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751408AbWASMoL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:44:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:50:56 +0100 (CET) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Roman Zippel cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] kconf: Check for eof from input stream. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5roZI-5y9-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <5sSVt-5Du-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <5sWwg-2Bq-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <5t4kf-5Px-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <5t5zv-7GD-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <5tXA1-3Lh-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <5u04G-7s6-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <5u8Yt-317-41@gated-at.bofh.it> <5u9L8-4gd-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <5uadH-4TM-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <5uaQp-5UL-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <5ubjI-6KH-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <5ubtB-6Xy-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <5uBdT-2Gn-23@gated-at.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@web.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 23 On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > It means it will accept any input and no input (by just pressing enter or > > > ctrl-d) means the default answer. > > > > If I press ^D, I'd expect to select the abort option > > That would be ^C. ^D means end-of-file and it's up to the application, > whether it needs further information to continue or not. If it does need data, it SHOULD NOT invent it, especially if inventing this data has no benefit and causes unexpected beahviour and random breakage. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 66. What do you mean you needed that directory? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/