[Image-SIG] BUG: PIL Ghostscript can't be used in a daemon

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Hi *,

we were trying to use the PIL in a daemon started at boot (via init.d)
and we encountered some problems with the Ghostscript function in
EpsImagePlugin.py. the popen call fails unless /dev/tty redirection
is removed from the command (we replaced it with /dev/null, a daemon
is not interested in gs output.) moreover you don't check the return
value from gs.close(), so the code fails when trying to open the
generated file at line 80. i think something like:

status = gs.close()
if status != 0:
    raise IOError("gs failed: return code = %d" % status)
...

would be more appropriate.

the PIL version is 1.1.3.

ciao,
federico

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Federico Di Gregorio
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