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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Writing to Standard Input (was Re: Closing stdout)
Summary: Don't Believe a Word of It
Message-ID: <7131@ki4pv.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 87 13:21:14 GMT
References: <10699@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: CompuData, DeLand
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In article <10699@brl-adm.ARPA>, LEYON_C%DICKINSN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Leyon, Chris) writes:
) [quote from K&P describing opening of /dev/tty for read/write & using
)  dup(2) to form stdin, stdout]  ... concluding:
)	 Therefore, your standard input is writable

This, of course, is not true if you are using pipes or re-direction.
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