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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:57:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <042d01c54084$8438e8b0$9efb7d50@kilgore> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504132352.j3DNqJJ19726@augusta.math.psu.edu>

>> good call. don't do it. We're fighting a lot of isatty() stupidity on our 
>> clusters, and it's a nightmare. I agree that it would get overused ...

i agree, but for some unix things you need isatty().  i remember
asking this question some years ago during a Python port.

not sure i'd use fd2path() tho, but that's just me.
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MGRS 31U DQ 52572 12604




  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-13 13:20 Einar Karttunen
2005-04-13 21:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-13 23:26   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-13 23:52     ` Dan Cross
2005-04-13 23:57       ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2005-04-14  0:00         ` Russ Cox
2005-04-14  0:14           ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-14  0:18             ` Russ Cox
2005-04-14  0:22               ` Bruce Ellis
2005-04-14  0:38                 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-14  1:02                   ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-14  0:56                 ` jmk
2005-04-14  0:01       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-04-14  0:39         ` Dan Cross
2005-04-14 17:14         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-14 17:29           ` Rob Pike
2005-04-14 19:25             ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-14 23:23             ` Bruce Ellis

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