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From: Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:38:28 -0300
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Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:51:28 -0000 (UTC)
> gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) boring babbled:
>>In article <vh9vgr$5bb$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:
>>>So my question is - is there a way to set up a pipe or socketpair** so that
>>>it appears to be a tty from the exec'd programs point of view, eg ttyname()
>>>returns non null?
>>
>>I think the short answer to your question is: No.
>>
>>There's no way to directly do what you want in a clean way.
>>
>>Thus, all we have is kludgey workarounds.  And I'm sure you've got plenty
>>of your own kludgey workarounds; you don't need any more from me.
>>
>>That said, if was me, I'd use Expect.  A few lines of Expect would do it,
>>such that I could send text to the process and the process would think they
>>were coming from a tty.  In fact, if you don't want to learn Expect (i.e.,
>>Tcl) just for this project, I think just using "unbuffer -p" (unbuffer is a
>>program that comes with the Expect distribution) would do it for you.
>
> Hmm, both sound pretty kludgey too tbh. As for Tcl , thats a blast from the
> past. Does anyone really still use it?

Hey, software doesn't dusty.