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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:26:35 MDT."
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:52:18 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Russ Cox wrote:
> > i'm hesitant to put it in a library because most programs (e.g., ls)
> > should not behave differently when running on a console.  if it's there,
> > it may be overused like in unix.
> 
> 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 ...

Or put it into libidiot.h just so there's only one copy of it.

Oh, you think I'm joking?

	- Dan C.