From ebdd240fd00259d187ee0e6aab43f266b804c3b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcus=20Sch=C3=A4fer?= <marcus.schaefer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:51:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically detect terminal mode

---
 doc/podman-pilot.rst       | 5 ++++-
 podman-pilot/Cargo.toml    | 1 +
 podman-pilot/src/podman.rs | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/podman-pilot.rst b/doc/podman-pilot.rst
index de82631..d22bad4 100644
--- a/doc/podman-pilot.rst
+++ b/doc/podman-pilot.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,10 @@ OPTIONS
 
 %interactive
 
-  Use when running interactive processes like a shell
+  Force interactive call style for processes like a shell.
+  Usually the pilot automatically detects if called in a
+  terminal or not. This options allows to override the
+  detection.
 
 DEBUGGING
 ---------
diff --git a/podman-pilot/Cargo.toml b/podman-pilot/Cargo.toml
index 4ae56b4..0ae1aa8 100644
--- a/podman-pilot/Cargo.toml
+++ b/podman-pilot/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ regex = { version = "1.9" }
 flakes = { version = "3.1.11", path = "../common" }
 rust-ini = { version = "0.21" }
 users = { version = "0.11" }
+atty = { version = "0.2" }
diff --git a/podman-pilot/src/podman.rs b/podman-pilot/src/podman.rs
index f05c7c8..9234b1e 100644
--- a/podman-pilot/src/podman.rs
+++ b/podman-pilot/src/podman.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 use crate::defaults;
 use crate::config::{RuntimeSection, config};
 
+use atty::Stream;
+
 use flakes::user::{User, mkdir};
 use flakes::lookup::Lookup;
 use flakes::io::IO;
@@ -520,7 +522,7 @@ pub fn call_instance(
     if Lookup::is_debug() {
         debug!("{:?}", call.get_args());
     }
-    if interactive {
+    if interactive || atty::is(Stream::Stdout) {
         call.status()?;
     } else {
         match call.output() {