Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/7] t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one

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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:19:47AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > Solaris 8 and 9 seem to be lacking it. Solaris 10 does have it. AIX 5.2
> > and 6.1 both have it.
> > 
> > So it would mean some platforms couldn't run all tests. That is probably
> > good enough, given that most of our terminal-related bugs have not been
> > platform-specific problems.
> 
> Hmm, how about /dev/ptmx?  (One can check by replacing posix_openpt(...)
> with open("/dev/ptmx", ...) in the test-terminal.c I sent.)

Solaris 8 does have /dev/ptmx. Sorry, I wasn't able to test it, as my
sol8 box is very vanilla right now, and I can't actually compile git on
it (it doesn't even have gmake). :)

Maybe Brandon (cc'd) can try it.

> No, not opposed.  Just lazy and not so interested in working on it.
> I do not want to just take the implementation you provided because I
> want to test the scripted git commands, too, though I haven’t gotten
> around to that.

Ah, right, I forgot about scripts. That makes things a little uglier,
but it should theoretically be possible.

-Peff
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