Re: [Chicken-users] csi -:c MSYS problem

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/6/06, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Posix provides an isatty() function to let you know when a file
> descriptor (like stdin/stdout) is connected to a terminal, rather than
> a pipe; but there may be no (obvious) equivalent to this on Windows. I
> imagine the root of the problem lies there. I don't know why the "-:c"
> behaviour couldn't be the default on win32/msys, though... maybe
> someone else can provide a good counter-case.

Chicken shows a prompt when isatty() returns true, otherwise it assumes
code is coming from stdin. Under windows emacs and apparently, the msys
shell isatty() seems to return 0.
I can add functionality to enable "-:c" by default through a compile-time
parameter.


cheers,
felix