[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >If stderr is a tty and you cannot read ftom stderr something is broken ,-)
>
>
> Typically, the world starts with:
>
> fd = open("/dev/xxx", O_RDWR);
> dup(fd);
> dup(fd);
>
> which gets you fd 0, 1 and 2 connected r/w on your tty.
>
> But there's nothing that makes the following invalid:
>
> fd = open("/dev/xxx", O_RDONLY);
> dup(fd);
> fd2 = open("/dev/xxx", O_WRONLY);
This has been discussed on the POSIX mailing list a while ago.
stderr is expected to be readable in the default case where stderr
is connected to the controlling tty.
Jörg
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