LYNX-DEV Re:bug or "feature"? :-)

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, John E. Davis wrote:

> To be honest, about the only change that I would make would be to
> change the hard-coded "/dev/tty" with the function call `ctermid'.
> However, on both the SunOS and Linux systems that I use, ctermid
> returns /dev/tty:

Just tried it on HP-UX, and it does the same thing.  Real helpful, huh? ;)
What about ttyname?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main ()
{
   fprintf (stdout, "%s\n", ttyname (fileno (stdin)));
   return 0;
}


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