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Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2006, 17:24 UTC
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Petr Baudis, Sat, Feb 11, 2006 14:33:40 +0100:
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> > 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.

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