Re: Bad interaction between CVS and ssh due to libc

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Jarc wrote:

> Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote:
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>
> > Any suggestions on how I'd detect that stderr and stdout point at
> > the same file?  Preferrably in some cross-platform manner.
> >    
>
> fstat() them and compare the device and inode numbers.
>
>
> paul
>  

On my system, the device and inode number are the same in the initial 
state - I assume because both stderr and stdout are being sent to the 
same tty, but I assume they have different file table entries in the 
kernel because stderr can be set to nonblock without doing the same to 
stdout.  I need to know when the two file descriptors point to the same 
file table entry (i.e. $ cvs <whatever> 2>&1).

The flags available via fcntl() appear to be identical in both cases as 
well.

Derek

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