Re: subversion reads from stdin even without tty and breaks

Eric Gillespie <epg_at_pretzelnet.org> writes:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> writes:
>> I've never tested that patch, and don't know if (for example) it Does
>> The Right Thing inside an Emacs shell buffer or other non-standard ttys
>> for which interactive prompting would still be appropriate.
>
> isatty returns 1 (true) for Emacs shell buffers. If it didn't,
> the fault would lie with Emacs; isatty is the standard Unix way
> to ask "is there a user here, or am I being automated?".

Ah, thanks. I was never clear on that point before.

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Received on 2008-05-19 23:36:47 CEST