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From: ams@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.m.shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ttyname() - question
Message-ID: <1702@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 14:16:41 GMT
References: <2613@incas.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <2613@incas.UUCP>, by tbecker@incas.UUCP (Thomas Becker):
> The manpage of ttyname(3) says that the function takes a field descritor as
> an argument. So I tried to call ttyname(NULL) within test(), and it worked!

You were lucky that in your implementation the representation of NULL is the
same as the representation of (int)0, giving you stdin.  A field [sic] 
descriptor is properly an int, not a pointer.

	Andrew Shaw