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authorRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2007-09-21 08:49:43 +0000
committerRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2007-09-21 08:49:43 +0000
commit45bd125dccdc7aef32af99cc6624a74dd2e24371 (patch)
tree130770fac1c33514444f9155947f56fc5bcb84ff /share.Linux
parentca58877ed06b259ce37a6240746c733d47b0a179 (diff)
Use a pty for prefixed output instead of pipes for stdout/stderr. This
is so that programs can get information about the controlling terminal. This change was triggered by bug #188506 where it's possible that stdin, stdout and stderr didn't point to a terminal but ended up on one via our pipes. Using a pty means that stdout and stderr always point to a terminal, but we lose the ability to tell them apart. If there is not a pty available then we use un-prefixed output as normal. This change has also introduced the need for a signal pipe so that SIGCHLD can exit the loop cleanly.
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