[3532] in testers
Re: stty run from cshrc on .logout invocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jun 4 14:28:34 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU,
source-developers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:50:39 EDT."
<199806041750.NAA18398@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:28:24 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> Perhaps we want to replace
>
> if ($?prompt)
>
> with
>
> if ( -t 0 )
Keeping the test on prompt is the more conservative choice, assuming
the stty is actually needed here at all. The -t 0 is effectively
the same as tty -s, though the latter is more portable. Of course,
if only the sgi's do this, I guess portability isn't a concern...
> I thought, though, that ($?prompt) was generally only true for an
> interactive shell. Odd that it's not true in this case.
Agreed. I guess it depends on how you define "interactive" :)
I don't think we should mess with tcsh, though, at least not for
this problem, especially since csh does the same thing.
Bob
