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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:26:35 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty
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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 ...

ron