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

[Allan McRae]

On 30/01/13 12:38, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> 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.
>  
>  
>  Operations
>