Re: [Monotone-devel] --non-interactive: run in non-interactive

[Zbigniew Zagórski]

Thomas Moschny pisze:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Zbigniew Zagórski wrote:
> > Safe means that I'm sure that monotone will not ask anything from
> > stdin/tty user but fail miserably with some error message. Thus it's
> > guarantee that it will never hang up.
>
> Couldn't we simply teach monotone to only ask the user for a password (or 
> whatever) if it is running in a terminal?

Well it's simple but ... it may create problems, small but still, 
problems:

1. People may want to run monotone on terminal in non-interactive 
mode. Namely, automated script may have tty as stdin.

2. People might want to write hackish scripts that feed monotone with 
password via stdin which is not tty then. I know lua is the best choice.

3. Again Windows stays in a way. I don't know if monotone is able to 
reliably detect if it has TTY on windows, if it's possible then no 
problem.

I don't know if these arguments (esp 2) are relevant, I think that 
such feature should be explicit.

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Zbigniew Zagórski
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