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Re: isatty bug


>* Corinna Vinschen <pbevaan-pltjva@pltjva.pbz> [2003-09-16 12:01:08 +0200]:
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:19:16PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > calling isatty(0) in a program results in a segfault:
> And the version number of the DLL is ...

1.5.4(0.94/3/2)

> Fd 0 is a tty, a console window, a tape drive, a ...

I am doing this in a windows console, as created by clicking on the
cygwin icon, i.e., in the bash shell.
I assume that 0 means stdin.

> Reproducible testcase is ...

------- scratch.c ----
#include <stdio.h>
int main (void) {
#define Y_N(x)  ((x) ? "(TTY)" : "(not a TTY)")
  printf("0: %s %s\n1: %s %s\n2: %s %s\n",
         ttyname(0),Y_N(isatty(0)),ttyname(1),Y_N(isatty(1)),
         ttyname(2),Y_N(isatty(2)))
#undef Y_N
  return 0;
}
------- scratch.c ----


$ gdb scratch
GNU gdb 2003-09-02-cvs (cygwin-special)
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Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) run tty
Starting program: /cygdrive/d/sds/c/scratch.exe tty

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? () from
(gdb) where
#0  0x00000000 in ?? () from
(gdb) p isatty(1)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

same for ttyname(0) &c.

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