Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron
From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /dev/tty doesn't exist?
Message-ID: <17254@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 88 20:27:39 GMT
References: <445@minya.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Sure, /dev/tty works by redirecting the output to your
controlling teletype.  Network processes that don't explicitly
use some feature like pty's, don't have a controlling teletype so
/dev/tty doesn't mean anything.

By the way, you have a real cute fprintf there that prints out the
error number.  Why not use perror, which does exactly what you did
only printing the error in English.

-Ron