Re: isatty: make it return true in Cygwin consoles on native Windows

[Gisle Vanem]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> > What if the .exe has another name?
>
> What other names are in common use for this program?

No sure. I'll need to check the MinGW-w64 list and motive.
Some custom variation of it perhaps?

> > The purpose of your function looks similar to what Mihail Konev
> > did for the MinGW-w64 project:
> >     
> > https://mingw-w64-public.narkive.com/s7kYRrtG/patch-mingw-w64-add-include-iscygtty-c
> >
> > Instead he looked for pipes matching:
> > "\Device\NamedPipe\(cygwin|msys)-[a-fA-F0-9]{16}-pty[0-9]{1,4}-(from-master|to-master|to-master-cyg)"
>
> I prefer to avoid the ntdll.dll API when possible.

Okay, what's wrong with that?

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