Check that the stdout is connected to an interactive terminal with isatty() before installing the periodic timer to print progress reports.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> --- notmuch-new.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c index 1616ee9..0dd2784 100644 --- a/notmuch-new.c +++ b/notmuch-new.c @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ #include "notmuch-client.h" +#include <unistd.h> + static volatile sig_atomic_t do_add_files_print_progress = 0; static void @@ -273,7 +275,7 @@ add_files (notmuch_database_t *notmuch, } /* Setup our handler for SIGALRM */ - if (! debugger_is_active ()) { + if (isatty (fileno (stdout)) && ! debugger_is_active ()) { memset (&action, 0, sizeof (struct sigaction)); action.sa_handler = handle_sigalrm; sigemptyset (&action.sa_mask); -- 1.6.5.3