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Re: Is console a tty ? (was Re: segment sizes)

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From: Jawaid Bazyar
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:28
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voss@i43s6.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss) writes:

>In my configuration (ORCA/C 1.3, Linker 2.0, GNO 1.0) the call to gtty returns
>still -1 (error) and "Error" is printed on my screen, though the components
>of variable "savetty" seem to be set up correctly after the call.

>I think I'm going to ignore the bad result. Any comments ?

  Yes, there was I believe a problem where ioctl would occasionally
return errors for no reason.  As long as you're sure the data coming back
is valid, ignore the error.

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Subject: Re: Is console a tty ? (was Re: segment sizes)
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