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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:14:00 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@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 Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> 20 years ago it became clear that there was no bloody way to determine
>    if a program was being run interactively.

yeah, it's why so many of our fortran runtimes guess wrong ...  they do
something stupid like "oh, this is !isatty(), I'll buffer stdout".  then
they core dump. Then users get no error message. Then users yell at me.

I really do hate isatty()

ron