Re: weird utmp/perl problem

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> writes:

> It's supposed to open /dev/tty instead of using stdin.  This is the way
> it works on all the systems I could get people to check for me, which
> are Linux with libc5, AIX 4.2, Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, DG/UX 4.11 and
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-R.

I don't understand how this would work.  How do you get the canonical
ttyname from /dev/tty ?

$ tty < /dev/tty
/dev/tty


Guy


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