syft/internal/input.go
Alex Goodman 484284706c
Use named pipe bit when checking for piped input (#603)
* use named pipe bit when checking for piped input

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <alex.goodman@anchore.com>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Angelo Phillips <christopher.phillips@anchore.com>
2021-11-02 16:41:02 +00:00

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Go

package internal
import (
"fmt"
"os"
)
// IsPipedInput returns true if there is no input device, which means the user **may** be providing input via a pipe.
func IsPipedInput() (bool, error) {
fi, err := os.Stdin.Stat()
if err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("unable to determine if there is piped input: %w", err)
}
// note: we should NOT use the absence of a character device here as the hint that there may be input expected
// on stdin, as running syft as a subprocess you would expect no character device to be present but input can
// be from either stdin or indicated by the CLI. Checking if stdin is a pipe is the most direct way to determine
// if there *may* be bytes that will show up on stdin that should be used for the analysis source.
return fi.Mode()&os.ModeNamedPipe != 0, nil
}