From 3091394edca48b8876326cb1d67813450c20a332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rudolf Polzer <divverent@xonotic.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:42:01 +0100
Subject: mp_msg: print MSGL_STATUS to stderr if stderr is redirected

Of course, status output is still hidden when stderr is a tty which is
not the foreground tty.
---
 core/mp_msg.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'core')

diff --git a/core/mp_msg.c b/core/mp_msg.c
index 58862406fe..e06d53c0d9 100644
--- a/core/mp_msg.c
+++ b/core/mp_msg.c
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ int mp_msg_test(int mod, int lev)
 {
 #ifndef __MINGW32__
     if (lev == MSGL_STATUS) {
-        // skip status line output if stderr is not in the fg process group
-        if (tcgetpgrp(2) != getpgrp())
+        // skip status line output if stderr is a tty but in background
+        if (isatty(2) && tcgetpgrp(2) != getpgrp())
             return false;
     }
 #endif
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