ttyname.c
Jeff Johnston
jjohnstn@redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 10:41:00 GMT 2008
Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With RTEMS, we build newlib before the OS. We do not have
> access to termios yet. So the new ttyname.c does not compile
> for RTEMS inside newlib. Would it be OK to use isatty()
> instead of this?
>
> /* Must be a terminal. */
> if (tcgetattr (fd, &tty) < 0)
> return errno; /* Can be EBADF or ENOTTY */
>
> newlib already assumes isatty() exists.
>
> Attached is a patch.
>
> 2008-11-18 Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
>
> * libc/unix/ttyname.c: Use isatty() instead of tcgetattr().
>
Ok. Patch checked in after fixing comment. IMO, setting the return
value directly to ENOTTY as
you did is preferable to using errno since there is no guarantee a
platform using newlib will do
so properly in isatty (i.e. it could leave errno unset and we would
return success).
-- Jeff J.
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