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On 03/18/2014 10:20 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 3/18/2014 10:42 AM, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>> I'm not sure redirecting stdin should suppress the prompt. The
>> -q flag does that (or -f). But it shouldn't trap. Looking at the
>> code, it does that on purpose, calling abort(). I have no idea
>> why it does that and I will fix it.
> 
> Interactive prompts should be suppressed when the program is not
> being run interactively.  In other words, when stdin is not a tty.
> 
> I ran into this problem because I was trying to extend the parted
> test suite to include jfs and it just hung waiting for an answer to
> a question that a human does not see since it is being run by a
> script. Figuring out which mkfs.xxx variants need a magic flag to
> do the right thing is not very nice.

It shouldn't hang, but if not told to specifically do something that
requires confirmation, I believe it should just quit with an
appropriate error message.

It would be nice if all the mkfs.* variants behaved the same way.

Shaggy
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