On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:51:30PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > Maybe confuse people by only requiring the '-w' if stdin
> > isn't a tty?
> 
> why?  so it only breaks when the script invoking sysctl is run
> interactively?

No, stdin of a script is the script, so a script would need -w
whereas somwthing typed in directly would not.

Quite a few commands change their behaviour if stdin isatty().

	David

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