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Re: [PATCH] editor: only save (and restore) the terminal if using a tty

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-22 23:08:54
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
In any case, I am quite tempted to just revert the offending topic
for now, but later accept a resurrection patch with this isatty
check rolled in (either at this caller, or inside save_term) when
the dust settles.
So, here is that first step, to be hopefully mergeable to 'master'
and also to 'maint' for 2.34.1

----- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 -----
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling EDITOR"

This reverts commit 3d411afabc9a96f41d47c07d6af6edda3d29ec92,
blindly opening /dev/tty and calling tcsetattr() seems to be causing
problems.

cf. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=577358
cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/04ab7301-ea34-476c-eae4-4044fef74b91@gmail.com/ (local)

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
 editor.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/editor.c b/editor.c
index be7441e7e0..6303ae0ab0 100644
--- a/editor.c
+++ b/editor.c
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "sigchain.h"
-#include "compat/terminal.h"
 
 #ifndef DEFAULT_EDITOR
 #define DEFAULT_EDITOR "vi"
@@ -51,8 +50,6 @@ const char *git_sequence_editor(void)
 static int launch_specified_editor(const char *editor, const char *path,
 				   struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env)
 {
-	int term_fail;
-
 	if (!editor)
 		return error("Terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset");
 
@@ -86,10 +83,7 @@ static int launch_specified_editor(const char *editor, const char *path,
 		p.env = env;
 		p.use_shell = 1;
 		p.trace2_child_class = "editor";
-		term_fail = save_term(1);
 		if (start_command(&p) < 0) {
-			if (!term_fail)
-				restore_term();
 			strbuf_release(&realpath);
 			return error("unable to start editor '%s'", editor);
 		}
@@ -97,8 +91,6 @@ static int launch_specified_editor(const char *editor, const char *path,
 		sigchain_push(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
 		sigchain_push(SIGQUIT, SIG_IGN);
 		ret = finish_command(&p);
-		if (!term_fail)
-			restore_term();
 		strbuf_release(&realpath);
 		sig = ret - 128;
 		sigchain_pop(SIGINT);
-- 
2.34.0-222-gceadac38b1
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