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Subject: Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:26:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:38:01 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> boring babbled:
>On 16.11.24 12:26, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> There is a command line util (MacOS "say")* that I wish to use fork-exec'd
>from
>> my own program and send data to it via a socket created by socketpair().
>> Unfortunately "say" behaves differently depending on whether its stdin is
>> attached to a tty or not (and there's no cmd line option to prevent this).
>> With the former it'll speak after every newline, with the latter not until it
>
>> gets an EOF and I'd rather not do a fork-exec for each individual word or
>> phrase that needs to be spoken.
>
>On shell level I'm using a program called 'pty' that takes the command
>as argument to make it think it has a terminal connection. Say, instead
>of calling (forking) your 'say' command you're calling (forking) the
>'pty' command with your 'say' command provided as argument. And all the
>gory details are kept inside the 'pty'. - I forgot whether 'pty' came
>with my Linux system, or whether I downloaded it separately, or whether
>I implemented or adapted the version that is published in Stevens' APUE
>book (with the source code available online, IIRC). IME it's worthwhile
>to have such a tool at hand; it's useful to me for various application
>contexts, and the interface is clean, a separate small tool unnecessary
>to be merged on source code level, and simple to use.

Unfortunately I can't find an equivalent to the pty util on MacOS.