Date:	Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:33:36 +0200
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Subject:	Re: [patch] L_ctermid in stdio.h
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:56:35 +0100
> 
> currently, this is #define'd away; however, the posix module
> for Python uses:
> 
> char buffer[L_ctermid];
> 
> which is rejected by the compiler.
> 
> So I amended stdio.h to define it to 4 (ctermid always returns
> "con", so 4 seems a good value).

Someone might change ctermid, or otherwise use the Posix-standard
/dev/tty.  So I think 9 is better.

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