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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:50:42 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Common code - isatty
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the correct approach is to check whether the end of
fd2path is /dev/cons.  the qid check is an older approach
that was used before fd2path.

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.

but i'd gladly apply a patch fixing telnet, rc, upas,
and libstdio.

russ