[darcs-devel] [patch561] darcs now uses tty instead of stdin in promptChar

[Eric Kow]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:42:36 +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> I can't see how the tests could sensibly be rewritten. So we'd need a flag  
> to control this behaviour.

Is it technically feasible to have some kind of command, let's call it
fake-terminal, that runs a command, accepts input on stdin and pretends
to that command that the input was typed in?

  echo yn | fake-terminal darcs ...

Is something like Expect what I'm thinking of?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

Could we "just use expect"? (That sounds like it'd involve a lot of
exit 200) or cook up a really brain-dead version?

(Perhaps I misunderstand the issue)

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