You Can Detect If Code Is Being Run Inside a Terminal

You Can Detect If Code Is Being Run Inside a Terminal(nelson.cloud)

2 points by speckx 3 days ago | 1 comment

MisterTea 3 days ago |

Shame the post does not go deeper and explain that isatty() is a standard C function specified by POSIX[1]. Depending on the implementation, GNU for example, isatty() calls tcgetattr(3) which performs an ioctl syscall.

1. https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/sysdeps/posix/isatty.c.h...

2. https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/...

MisterTea 3 days ago |

Shame the post does not go deeper and explain that isatty() is a standard C function specified by POSIX[1]. Depending on the implementation, GNU for example, isatty() calls tcgetattr(3) which performs an ioctl syscall.

1. https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/sysdeps/posix/isatty.c.h...

2. https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/...