bin/143017: watch(8): fatal: cannot attach to tty

Mark Johnston markjdb at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 21:30:17 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR bin/143017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com>
To: Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, dummy at smtp.ru
Subject: Re: bin/143017: watch(8): fatal: cannot attach to tty
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:17:50 -0400

 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
 > Hi Mark,
 > 
 > * Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com>, 20120312 03:27:
 > > - Remove interactive mode... I don't see why it's needed either.
 > 
 > It's still there, even after applying your patch. Search for
 > `opt_interactive.
 > 
 
 Oh, I was referring to the -i flag; my comment was misleading, sorry.
 opt_interactive (or something similar) is still needed in order for
 watch(8) to work properly when writing output to a file, no?
 
 -Mark


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