Simon McVittie dixit:
>> as well as open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR, 0)
>
>Asserting that /dev/tty is the correct device node and has appropriate
>permissions should cover that.
Totally not, unfortunately: it only works when it actually has a ctty.
>> and later F_DUPFD and F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC fcntl
>
>Those are basic syscalls that act on any valid fd (not just terminals)
>so if they somehow fail then we already have much, much worse problems.
Yeah, these are granted.
>> Perhaps isolating that as a small C or Perl program to use
>> for those tests?
>
>It looks like even perl-base (which is Essential) should have
>POSIX::isatty, so that's probably the most convenient.
That and the builtin open to open /dev/tty ought to do,
but I’m not a Perl monk, so feel free to ;-)
Thanks,
//mirabilos
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