Cannot call @system funciton (stdout)
Anonymouse
zorael at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 16:00:45 UTC 2020
On Saturday, 19 September 2020 at 14:08:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 September 2020 at 13:56:53 UTC, Anonymouse
> wrote:
>> Is there a way to detect programmatically if I'm in an
>> environment where I need to manually set line buffering?
>
> Part of the problem is the IDE console and cygwin too I believe
> both *look* like a pipe to the program instead of like an
> interactive terminal, thus why it gets block instead of line
> buffered.
>
> Someone once told me of a trick to detect cygwin specifically
> but I can't access it right now and I'm not sure it would work
> reliably anyway....
>
> Just yeah set your expectations low because if it was easy to
> tell programmatically the libc would already do it right.
Also makes sense, thanks. I already expose the option to force
flushing with a --flush command-line argument, so I guess I'll
keep that around (but use setvbuf when the TERM/uname thing
detects a whitelisted environment).
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