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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint question
Message-ID: <9332@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Jan 89 07:57:07 GMT
References: <491@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <9322@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2679@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2679@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>	if(fprintf(stderr, "...: operation failed\n") == FAIL) {
>		if(!(fp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w"))) {
>			if(!(fp = fopen("/dev/console", "w"))) {

Not really, because if somebody has redirected stderr it is probably
for a good reason, and such policy should not be overridden by an
application that doesn't know what's going on outside.  Blathering
on the console is particularly obnoxious in most cases.