Jürgen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Standards also describe this feature
> ("The stderr stream is expected to be open for reading and writing."),
> e.g. here:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/stdin.html
Note that POSIX does not define path names and thus /dev/tty is non-standard
and non-portable. The only portable way for a POSIX program to read responses
from the user even in case that stdin is redirected is to read from stderr.
This has at least a tradition of 30 years on UNIX.
Jörg
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