Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] document that stdin must not be a tty to read from it

On 30/01/13 12:38, Andrew Gregory wrote:

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory ---

I think I'm alone in wanting to remove the isatty check, but we can at least document it.

For the record, this is the old discussion, which I am not entirely convinced came to a conclusion. Is there some standard - not necessarily a real standard but perhaps in the GNU coding conventions - that we can use to justify either behaviour. [1] https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/720/

doc/pacman.8.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index de28b9c..358d506 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end). Invoking pacman involves specifying an operation with any potential options and targets to operate on. A 'target' is usually a package name, filename, URL, or a search string. Targets can be provided as command line arguments. -Additionally, if a single dash (-) is passed as an argument, targets will be -read from stdin. +Additionally, if stdin is not from a terminal and a single dash (-) is passed +as an argument, targets will be read from stdin.

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