RE: [Refdb-users] refdbc and php4

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Alan,

could you please test the following patch in addition to the one I
sent previously? Let me know whether it fixes your problem.

Markus Hoenicka writes:
 > Hi Alan,
 > 
 > I just found out that it indeed makes a difference. When I run my test
 > script as a CGI app, it reports that stdin is not connected to a
 > tty. Under these circumstances, refdbc will try to read from stdin and
 > fail with the messages that you reported. I'll try and see whether
 > there is a clean fix for this problem.

diff -c -r1.45 refdbc.c
*** refdbc.c	6 Feb 2003 22:12:46 -0000	1.45
--- refdbc.c	12 Feb 2003 22:57:11 -0000
***************
*** 193,198 ****
--- 193,199 ----
    int n_opt, i, j;
    int n_readinit = 1; /* if 1, read config file. If 0, skip config file */
    int retval;
+   int n_cgi_env = 0; /* will be 1 if started in a CGI environment */
    FILE* errstream;
  #ifdef REFDB_CGI
    struct liliform sentinel;
***************
*** 207,212 ****
--- 208,214 ----
    /* test how we were invoked */
  #ifdef REFDB_CGI
    n_cgi = is_cgi(&request_method, &content_length, delayed_cgi_errmsg); /* 1 if we are running as a cgi app */
+   n_cgi_env = n_cgi;
  
    /* look for batch command. If found, set n_cgi to 0 because we are
     apparently invoked as a regular app by a CGI app */
***************
*** 227,233 ****
      errstream = stderr;
    }
  
!   if (!isatty(fileno(stdin))) { /* if we receive data on stdin via a redirection or a pipe */
      n_read_stdin = 1;
    }
      
--- 229,239 ----
      errstream = stderr;
    }
  
!   /* switch on reading from stdin if we receive data on stdin via a
!      redirection or a pipe. If refdbc is started from a CGI app as a
!      regular app, it will still think that stdin is not connected to a
!      tty. In that case we must not try to read from stdin */
!   if (!isatty(fileno(stdin)) && !n_cgi_env) { 
      n_read_stdin = 1;
    }
      

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