[Rt-devel] [patch]: make command-line tool safe to be invoked with IO redirection

Tim Cutts tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Tue Aug 26 08:06:30 EDT 2008


On 25 Aug 2008, at 8:47 am, Jesse Vincent wrote:

> Depending on /dev/tty feels like it's going to break on some common
> platform or other.  Anyone have any useful guidance?

I also have the feeling that this is a bad way to do it, but my  
brain's in vacation mode and I can't think of the precise reason why  
at the moment.

Tim


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