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According to Tomthon on 4/7/2007 4:55 AM:
> Do you mean before ls program output it's result,it would get some attributes 
> from file descriptor 1 such as the screen width?

Not quite.  It calls istty(), as required by POSIX, to determine whether
output is to a terminal (implies -C) or not (implies -1).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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