Re: [GSOC]Show progress output

Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> writes:

> I think trying the "isatty" way is a good idea. There's no need to
> embarrass script writers unless absolutely necessary.
>
> Portability could be an issue (Windows, Windows, give me your answer, do
> ...) but it can't be worse than the other command-line bits, and we
> already have a cmdline.c that's full of Win-specific ifdefs.

On Windows, there is GetFileType in Win32 and _isatty in CRT.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa364960.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/f4s0ddew.aspx

apr_file_info_get calls GetFileType and the source looks like it
sets APR_CHR in the appropriate situations. It requires an
apr_file_t * but apr_file_open_stdout can apparently provide one.

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Received on 2009-03-30 01:24:45 CEST