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From: ron@rdk386.UUCP (Ron Kuris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: tset reads stderr??
Keywords: tset stderr
Message-ID: <124@rdk386.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 22:04:12 GMT
Organization: From Home, Sacramento, CA
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I wrote my own front-end getty a while back and had trouble using
'tset'.  Basically, it would never ask for the correct terminal
type.  I found out that it was reading stderr, which my front-end
getty opened for write-only (mode O_WRONLY).

Is there a good reason for this?  Wasn't there a discussion a while
back about reading from stdout, stderr?  If so, could someone
summarize?

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