On 2012-06-09 11:29 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 10:36:00AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Also, shouldn't the test check whether opening /dev/tty was actually >> successful? > > I assumed in that instance that poll would simply fail :-)
Well, it returns 0 which you treat as success. From the manpage: The field fd contains a file descriptor for an open file. If this field is negative, then the corresponding events field is ignored and the revents field returns zero. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org