Fix broken output when asking question and stdin is piped

When asking question and stdin is piped, the response does not get printed out,
resulting in a missing \n and broken output (FS#27909); printing the response
fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <i.am.jack.mail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c
index e4e44c63..d72509a5 100644
--- a/src/pacman/util.c
+++ b/src/pacman/util.c
@@ -1365,6 +1365,12 @@ static int question(short preset, char *fmt, va_list args)
 			return preset;
 		}
 
+		/* if stdin is piped, response does not get printed out, and as a result
+		 * a \n is missing, resulting in broken output (FS#27909) */
+		if(!isatty(fileno(stdin))) {
+			fprintf(stream, "%s\n", response);
+		}
+
 		if(strcasecmp(response, _("Y")) == 0 || strcasecmp(response, _("YES")) == 0) {
 			return 1;
 		} else if(strcasecmp(response, _("N")) == 0 || strcasecmp(response, _("NO")) == 0) {