From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <042d01c54084$8438e8b0$9efb7d50@kilgore> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200504132352.j3DNqJJ19726@augusta.math.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:57:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39291e74-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> 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. -- MGRS 31U DQ 52572 12604