[parted-devel] what if interactive in libparted

[Sebastian Parschauer]

On 13.02.2017 10:13, Wang Dong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if I can have an interactive exception in libparted.
> 
> As I know, parted is composed of libparted + some front end.
> 
> libparted will be compiled into .so file and parted will be compiled
> from front end
> 
> files, linked with this .so file. (If I missed something, please so kind
> let me know.)
> 
> 
> Now I want to have an interactive exception in libparted.
> 
> But the point is:  the exception messages should be different in script
> mode and interactive mode.
> 
> Now I have to adjudge the mode status from the input from front end. I
> tried for a while but I can
> 
> not make it.  I do it as following:
> 
> add global function in *parted.c* as well as *parted.in.h* and try to make.
> 
> But it fails always. It seems this is not good.
> 
> 
> I am not so familiar with framework of parted. Just need your help.
> 
> I just want to ask what I have missed. And is  it possible to realize
> what I mentioned above.
> 
> Or do you have a better idea?

If you look at parted/parted.c, then you can see that the parted
executable differentiates between script mode and interactive mode with
the opt_script_mode variable. Also isatty() can be used to verify.

libparted doesn't and shouldn't know about interactive or not.

Does this help?

Cheers,
Sebastian