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author | Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com> | 2023-11-23 22:04:35 +0800 |
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committer | Jia Tan <jiat0218@gmail.com> | 2023-11-23 22:40:20 +0800 |
commit | 584e3a258f32d579b1d07f99b4dc6e856c10ac7e (patch) | |
tree | a891ce6e03d4579de0fd0d00714abfd428bdd0c2 /NEWS | |
parent | tuklib_integer: Fix typo discovered by codespell. (diff) | |
download | xz-584e3a258f32d579b1d07f99b4dc6e856c10ac7e.tar.xz |
xz: Create separate is_tty() function.
The new is_tty() will report if a file descriptor is a terminal or not.
On POSIX systems, it is a wrapper around isatty(). However, the native
Windows implementation of isatty() will return true for all character
devices, not just terminals. So is_tty() has a special case for Windows
so it can use alternative Windows API functions to determine if a file
descriptor is a terminal.
This fixes a bug with MSVC and MinGW-w64 builds that refused to read from
or write to non-terminal character devices because xz thought it was a
terminal. For instance:
xz foo -c > /dev/null
would fail because /dev/null was assumed to be a terminal.
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