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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> | 2023-12-22 20:02:06 +0800 |
commit | 0ecfaa6df91f7c37510f370295f593b9c0b88b98 (patch) | |
tree | 1b0c01e26e0171d9f9a49e57f9c770d0cf2f45d6 /README | |
parent | tuklib_integer: Fix typo discovered by codespell. (diff) | |
download | xz-0ecfaa6df91f7c37510f370295f593b9c0b88b98.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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