Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

Dan!  Stop being so blunt and correct!

20 years ago it became clear that there was no bloody way
to determine if a program was being run interactively.

Given that ... the various hacks are convenient.
e.g. "rc" rather than "rc -i" but still ... It is a cesspool.

brucee

On 4/14/05, Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes:
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Russ Cox wrote:
> > > i'm hesitant to put it in a library because most programs (e.g., ls)
> > > should not behave differently when running on a console.  if it's there,
> > > it may be overused like in unix.
> >
> > good call. don't do it. We're fighting a lot of isatty() stupidity on our
> > clusters, and it's a nightmare. I agree that it would get overused ...
> 
> Or put it into libidiot.h just so there's only one copy of it.
> 
> Oh, you think I'm joking?
> 
>        - Dan C.
> 
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