Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] add interface for /dev/tty interaction

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 01:11:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Factor out the opening and closing of /dev/tty from
> > git_terminal_prompt(), so that callers may first test if a controlling
> > terminal is available before proceeding with prompting proper.
> >
> > When HAVE_DEV_TTY is not defined, terminal_open() falls back to checking
> > tty-ness of stdin and stderr, as getpass() uses them both.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> This is not your fault but seeing term_t made me go "eek, yuck".

Agreed.

> As far as I can see, use of "FILE *" in existing compat/terminal.c
> is not buying us anything useful.  The stdio calls made on FILE *fh
> are only fopen(), fputs(), fflush() and fclose(), and everything
> else goes through fileno(fh).
> 
> So perhaps it is a saner approach to fix that function first before
> this patch so that it works on file descriptors.

Yeah, I think that is a good path. I think my original use of stdio
was mostly because I started by paring down glibc's implementation of
getpass.  Since we have niceties like write_in_full, I don't think
there's any reason not to just skip stdio.

-Peff