Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.9 Severity: minor When apt-get is invoked in a way that involves actually installing a package, it reads any available data from standard input, regardless of actual need. This breaks the usual ability, at an interactive shell, to type the next command while the current one is running: apt-get consumes input that was intended for the shell. strace shows that the input is read by the top-level apt-get process, by read(2) from fd 0, in response to pselect(2).
Presumably apt-get is reading this input in order to pass it on to interactive aspects of package installation, but it's doing it regardless of whether the installation process seeks input and, where it does want input, regardless of how much input it wants to read. This behaviour is not documented. It's not immediately obvious why apt-get has to act as an intermediary for this input at all. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
