On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:02:41AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Nicholas Clark
> # on Friday 02 March 2007 08:40 am:
>
> >On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:10:15PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >> I hope somebody else can explain the full story. My complaint was
> >> only that eof(STDIN) never returns on an open terminal STDIN
> >> filehandle. Just try:
> >>
> >> perl -e 'print eof(STDIN)'
> >>
> >> and wait.
> >
> >Which perl version? It does return for me on 5.8.8 on FreeBSD after I
> > type control-D. I believe that there was a bug related to this that
> > was fix.
>
> We do not have a "doesn't return after Ctrl+D" issue.
>
> This is about the user not knowing that they should hit Ctrl+D.
>
FWIW, there are notes in IO::Tty about EOF on the slave tty
not being returned to the parent pty in all cases. I'm not sure if that
applies here.
Austin
