From bf62e02420efc450c42c5c00916f59ccd8694f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn Maynard <gmaynard@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:02:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix crash notification not being displayed if stdout has been
 closed

---
 stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/CrashHandlerChild.cpp | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/CrashHandlerChild.cpp b/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/CrashHandlerChild.cpp
index dae7a49f0a..3869b9eb54 100644
--- a/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/CrashHandlerChild.cpp
+++ b/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/CrashHandlerChild.cpp
@@ -349,7 +349,13 @@ static void child_process()
     /* Forcibly kill our parent. */
     kill( getppid(), SIGKILL );
 #else
-    fprintf(stderr,
+    /* stdout may have been inadvertently closed by the crash in the parent;
+     * write to /dev/tty instead. */
+    FILE *tty = fopen( "/dev/tty", "w" );
+    if( tty == NULL )
+        tty = stdin;
+
+    fprintf(tty,
             "\n"
             PRODUCT_NAME " has crashed.  Debug information has been output to\n"
             "\n"