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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:00:33 GMT
From:      Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/143017: watch(8): fatal: cannot attach to tty
Message-ID:  <201203122200.q2CM0XuA082140@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/143017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>
To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, dummy@smtp.ru
Subject: Re: bin/143017: watch(8): fatal: cannot attach to tty
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:52:36 -0400

 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:
 > Sure, but in that case you can simply use isatty() to distinguish the
 > special treatment. What I mean is that you can only call watch(8) by
 > passing the TTY used on the command line.
 
 Ok, fair enough. I replaced opt_interactive with isatty(std_out)
 checks. One check was unnecessary - the line with a FD_ISSET check. I
 also added a check in unset_tty() so that the terminal doesn't break
 if we bail with ^C.
 
 So the difference now is that in non-interactive mode, we're not
 interested in stdin, and the tty has to be passed on the command line.
 
 > Also I see you've simplified the code that dynamically scales the input
 > buffer size. Though I think that's a good idea, I do think we should
 > increase BUF_SIZE to something higher. Setting it to 4 KB or something
 > shouldn't harm, right?
 
 Yeah, good point. I've attached the regenerated patch.
 
 -Mark



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