Bug#934438: zenity: editable textinfo causes - (stdin) to become temporarily unavailable
Agafnd
agafnd at openmailbox.org
Sat Aug 10 23:50:03 BST 2019
Package: zenity
Version: 3.22.0-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was writing a script using `zenity`, involving a line like:
zenity --text-info --editable > "$file"
which as you are probably aware, opens a text dialog, takes user input, and puts it in $file.
After running this script, I had cause to run `cat` with no options, which simply takes input
from stdin. Imagine my surprise when I got the error message:
cat: -: Resource temporarily unavailable
After talking about it a bit in #debian on freenode, I determined that:
- `cat /dev/stdin` still works
- `cat` works again once a new `bash` instance has been started
- `zenity --text-info --editable >/dev/null` causes the problem
- `zenity --text-info --editable </dev/null` does not cause the problem (and is a workaround)
This bug does not seem to be present in `zenity --entry`
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages zenity depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1
ii libnotify4 0.7.7-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1
ii libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.18.6-1~deb9u1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1
ii zenity-common 3.22.0-1
zenity recommends no packages.
zenity suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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