On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:22:28PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
Apart from being a good idea, this works round an apparent bug in
either
Term::ProgressBar or Term::ReadKey which seems to result in an attempt to write
an exceptionally long progress bar.
Fixes RHBZ#671083
ACK.
I'm a bit surprised that the progress bar is sent to STDERR by default
(the default in Term::ProgressBar).
For reference, similar code is used in guestfish except we check if
stdin is a tty not stderr, and we output to stdout:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=fish/fish.c;h=10f645f5d...
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=fish/progress.c;hb=HEAD
Rich.
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