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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: isatty() behaviour (was Compress  error messages)
Message-ID: <6385@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 12:17:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6385
Posted: Wed Sep  2 12:17:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 06:14:06 EDT
References: <408@tessi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <408@tessi.UUCP> joey@tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett) writes:
>Think of all the code that would stop behaving semi-irrationally if
>this "fix" were installed.

The code would of course still be irrational, in that it would be
perror()ing when it shouldn't.  The most likely symptom would then
be the "No error" error message, which is even sillier.