[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.11-1

Thu Aug 20 14:40:00 GMT 2009

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:07:21AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>>According to Dave Korn on 8/20/2009 7:11 AM:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>>>> See this thread on the gnulib list, which claims that you can use this
>>> undocumented snippet to decide whether a HANDLE is a console:
>>>>>>> #define IsHandleConsole(h) (((long) (h) & 3) == 3)
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00065.html
>>>> I wouldn't rely on that for a microsecond. The low two bits of a HANDLE are
>> pretty free form and could easily be used for other purposes by other types of
>> object. Read the rest of the thread; it's a convention used internally by
>> WINE. MS doesn't necessarily follow suit.
>>Agreed - Bruno raised this concern, but Paolo committed the change anyway,
>so I've asked them to clarify.
>>At any rate, Bruno also had this suggestion in that thread:
>>static BOOL
>IsHandleConsole(HANDLE h)
>{
> DWORD mode;
> return GetConsoleMode (h, &mode);
>}

That should be even better than the Cygwin method, assuming that you don't
have to figure out if the handle is opened for input or output.
cgf
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