From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T01:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: New "Ruby for Windows" Installer

On Mar 5, 10:56 pm, Lothar Scholz <mailingli...@scriptolutions.com>
wrote:

<snip>

> And well theres also one bugfix i planed to report to the Ruby core list
> for quite some time. In windows -1 and (-2 in MSVC 8) are special FILE
> pointers in console applications that don't have a console (ms hack) so
> "rb_io_isatty(io)" has a bug and needs to be fixed.
>
> static VALUE
> rb_io_isatty(io)
>     VALUE io;
> {
>     OpenFile *fptr;
>     GetOpenFile(io, fptr);
>     if (fileno(fptr->f) == -1) return Qfalse; /* THIS MUST BE ADDED */
>     if (isatty(fileno(fptr->f)) == 0) {
>         return Qfalse;
>         }
>     return Qtrue;
>
> }

I wonder if using GetFileType() and checking for FILE_TYPE_CHAR would
be a better long term solution.

Regards,

Dan