Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.

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Reece Dunn <msclrhd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 2009/9/16 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2009/9/16 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Josh Triplett schrieb:
>>>> I considered adding a -f/--force option, like gzip has, but writing an
>>>> archive to a tty seems like a sufficiently insane use case that I'll let
>>>> whoever actually needs that write the patch for it. ;)
>>>
>>> How about '--output -' instead?
>>
>> You could always just add '|cat'.
>
> Except when running on Windows. Yes MSYS and cygwin provide a version
> of cat, but this cannot be guaranteed (e.g. with the series to support
> building with MSVC).

In general, autodectection features sometimes fail, so it's good to
have an explicit override option.

> The `--output -` / `-o -` syntax looks reasonable

I like this too.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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