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For me no, but I think it depends a lot on the experience of the developer and the language it is using. And environment variable is more common knowledge, it's

For me no, but I think it depends a lot on the experience of the developer and the language it is using. And environment variable is more common knowledge, it's cross platform and supported in any decent language. I bet that many don't even know that something like isatty(3) exists.

zinekeller 5y ago
> I bet that many don't even know that something like isatty(3) exists. Also shell scripts can't directly use that.
- messe 5y ago
  Sure, and that's why POSIX provides `test -t`.