How to check if the program is run from a console?

Question

I\'m writing an application which dumps some diagnostics to the standard output.

I\'d like to have the application work this way:

• If it is run from a s

Answer 1

After trying quite many different api's and calls, I've found out only one working approach:

bool isConsole = isatty(fileno(stdin));

Stdout cannot be used as you can run console application and redirect output to file using >log.txt switch. Suspect it's also possible to redirect input as well, but it's quite rarely used functionality when running console applications.