# from Andreas J. Koenig
# on Friday 02 March 2007 03:10 am:
>If
>the user redirects the prompt to /dev/null, then he deliberately
>shoots himself in the foot and there is no way to find that out.
Ok, pretend I said "> /tmp/foo" or "| thbbt" in the example. In all
three cases, it should not be prompting without a non-terminal STDIN.
The user didn't shoot his foot, he just told the computer to not bother
him with silly things like output.
Remember, STDOUT is part of the _is_interactive() question, STDIN only
becomes involved if STDOUT is not a terminal, at which point we check
to see if there is a scripted set of answers being piped in.
--Eric
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