Patch info for stdout_mf

Author Comments

Stunnel writes to stdin instead of stdout, which has the effect
that it is not possible to redirect its output.  Example:

	stunnel -c -r server > file

would not write to the file.

Instead of reading from stdin and writing to stdout, stunnel
both reads and writes from/to stdin.


The attached patch lets stunnel write to stdout if it reads
from stdin. It's not very elegant, but works for me.



[ Webmaster Note:  The reason that stunnel worked this way is
because it was meant to be invoked as a daemon or from inetd,
and wasn't geared to handle this form of I/O.  In inetd you
*must* have the input and output be the same file descriptor
because it is a bidirectional socket. ]

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