gpm-1.19.3-devfs.patch

gpm-1.20.0.tar.gz

--- gpm-1.19.3/gpn.c.devfs	Sun Jan 28 12:16:19 2001
+++ gpm-1.19.3/gpn.c	Sun Jan 28 12:17:07 2001
@@ -440,9 +440,8 @@
 
 #if 1 /* was: "if (!defined(HAVE_SYSLOG) || !defined(HAVE_VSYSLOG))" */
     if (!freopen("/dev/console","w",stderr)) /* the currently current console */
-      {
-        oops("freopen(stderr) failed");
-      }
+	if(!freopen("/dev/tty", "w", stderr)) /* Try harder */
+		fclose(stderr); /* Yuck, this is bad, but not really a reason to abort */
 #else
     fclose(stderr);
 #endif