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RE: 1.5.5-1: fprintf(stdout, ...) writes to serial port when used by apcupsd
- From: "Alexander Schremmer" <alex at alexanderweb dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:27:23 +0100
- Subject: RE: 1.5.5-1: fprintf(stdout, ...) writes to serial port when used by apcupsd
Hi,
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> This is not a cygwin problem. It is a problem with a program
> that assumes that it has a valid stdout. It is perfectly
> possible that a program can be started with no stdout, stdin, or stderr.
The author said that it must a problem of cygwin ...
Is it enough to call ftell(stdout) and check for != -1 to check for a valid
stdout? Then I'd submit that patch to apcupsd.
Kind regards,
Alexander
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