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# ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
+ 21 Sep 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
+
+ Use a pty for prefixed output instead of pipes for stdout/stderr. This
+ is so that programs can get information about the controlling terminal.
+ This change was triggered by bug #188506 where it's possible that
+ stdin, stdout and stderr didn't point to a terminal but ended up on one
+ via our pipes. Using a pty means that stdout and stderr always point to
+ a terminal, but we lose the ability to tell them apart.
+ If there is not a pty available then we use un-prefixed output as normal.
+ This change has also introduced the need for a signal pipe so that
+ SIGCHLD can exit the loop cleanly.
+
20 Sep 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
libeinfo now works out the number of columns from stdout rather than