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		Karellen on Nov 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The bash book to rule them all Huh. My intuition would have been that stdin/stderr provided by sshd to the shell would have been been marked as `isatty(3)`. TIL.

usrbinbash on Nov 26, 2023 [–]

The interesting thing is, `isatty()` seems to report 1 even over an ssh connection...so yeah, purely from that point of view, the shell should be "interactive". Why this case is then marked as special in the bash manpage, I cannot say :D

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