On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:46:01 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Since the decision of whether a console exists is dependent on the >> implementation as specified, >> >>> Whether a virtual machine has a console is dependent upon the underlying >>> platform >> >> And the existing wording in this paragraph uses open-ended words such as >> "may" and "typically", it makes sense to me that this change would follow >> the same style of wording. If you wanted to concretely define what this >> implementation does, using one of the `@impl` tags to describe the behavior >> could be an option? > > Okay, so the intent is to specify that it is implementation or configuration > specific as to whether there is a Console when standard input or output, but > not both, are redirected, is that right? What should users expect isTerminal > to return in this case? For the jshell case, I think it can return `true` from its `isTerminal()` as it is infact interactive environment. That means all the Console implementations return `true` so that we can replace that "may not have a Console" with "will not have a Console", which is clearer. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26299#discussion_r2223438918
