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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