Petr Baudis, Sat, Feb 11, 2006 14:33:40 +0100: > > It probably should default to quiet if (!isatty(1)). > > isatty(2) or something, 1 is in practice always a ref generator. Perhaps > it would be better not to clutter stderr, though; what about directly > opening /dev/tty? Does Cygwin support that? It can't. Windows has no terminals (as in "none at all"). It has a Console, which is a special kind of window attached to an application and where the unbuffered stdout and stderr are magically redirected. A test for is stdout/err is a tty can only check if the process has the console attached, and an attempt to open it for writing will probably just create the thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Feb 12 04:25:20 2006
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