iscygpty

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go-iscygpty

Golang port of iscygpty which is a part of ptycheck. Check if a program running on mintty (or some other terminal) on Cygwin/MSYS.

API

Only three functions are provided.

• GetPipeName()
• IsCygwinPty()
• IsCygwinPtyUsed()

See _exapmle/example.go for usage.

License

The MIT License

Documentation

Index

• func GetPipeName(fd uintptr) string
• func IsCygwinPty(fd uintptr) bool
• func IsCygwinPtyUsed() bool

Functions

func GetPipeName

func GetPipeName(fd uintptr) string

GetPipeName returns the name of the file descriptor if it is a named pipe on Windows. Otherwise it returns an empty string.

func IsCygwinPty

func IsCygwinPty(fd uintptr) bool

IsCygwinPty returns true if the file descriptor is a Cygwin/MSYS pty.

func IsCygwinPtyUsed

func IsCygwinPtyUsed() bool

IsCygwinPtyUsed returns true if Cygwin/MSYS pty is used.