Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] compat/terminal: let prompt accept input from pipe

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 7, 2021, 05:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rajw1xf.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YJTH+sTP/O5Nxtp9@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> For testing, wouldn't lib-terminal.sh be usable for your purpose?
>> If not, what is the reason why it is insufficient?  Can we fix that
>> instead?
>
> That doesn't work, because it insists on reading from /dev/tty and not
> the pty that lib-terminal will set up as stdin. But...

I somehow thought that lib-terminal was a bit more complete in that it would make the pty we allocate to the controlling terminal for the process that runs the test program. Sigh.

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