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authorRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2007-12-03 16:16:08 +0000
committerRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2007-12-03 16:16:08 +0000
commit52b6cd1c9be5b7c4c0ed16c69239ae2c6839fba0 (patch)
tree6f3fe10ef31b70c266fe6e550d4c92a7b359f3d5
parent82f7dae3e81a4054464bee42b49f1d872c7ca63d (diff)
As ecolor does not take a tty, try and guess a valid one.
-rw-r--r--src/libeinfo.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libeinfo.c b/src/libeinfo.c
index 9561028e..fdbf18bf 100644
--- a/src/libeinfo.c
+++ b/src/libeinfo.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static const char *_ecolor (FILE *f, einfo_color_t color)
if (! colour_terminal (f))
return ("");
-
+
switch (color) {
case ECOLOR_GOOD:
if (! (col = getenv ("ECOLOR_GOOD")))
@@ -319,7 +319,19 @@ hidden_def(ecolor)
const char *ecolor (einfo_color_t color)
{
- return (_ecolor (stdout, color));
+ FILE *f = stdout;
+
+ /* Try and guess a valid tty */
+ if (! isatty (fileno (f))) {
+ f = stderr;
+ if (! isatty (fileno (f))) {
+ f = stdin;
+ if (! isatty (fileno (f)))
+ f = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return (_ecolor (f, color));
}
#define EINFOVN(_file, _color) \