From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:14:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504141112590.19793@enigma.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d19050413170155776984@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> 20 years ago it became clear that there was no bloody way to determine
> if a program was being run interactively.
yeah, it's why so many of our fortran runtimes guess wrong ... they do
something stupid like "oh, this is !isatty(), I'll buffer stdout". then
they core dump. Then users get no error message. Then users yell at me.
I really do hate isatty()
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-14 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 13:20 Einar Karttunen
2005-04-13 21:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-13 23:26 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-13 23:52 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-13 23:57 ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-14 0:00 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-14 0:14 ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-14 0:18 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-14 0:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-04-14 0:38 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-14 1:02 ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-14 0:56 ` jmk
2005-04-14 0:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-04-14 0:39 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-14 17:14 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2005-04-14 17:29 ` Rob Pike
2005-04-14 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-14 23:23 ` Bruce Ellis
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