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SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/15] kconf: Check for eof from input stream.
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.

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