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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:30:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how to check stdin == stdout?
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> To check that stdin and stdout are the same TTYs,
> I use the following code on UNIX (all flavors)
> 
> #define stdin_handle   0
> #define stdout_handle  1
> 
>       struct stat stdin_stat;
>       struct stat stdout_stat;
>       if ((fstat(stdin_handle,&stdin_stat) >= 0) &&
>           (fstat(stdout_handle,&stdout_stat) >= 0))
>         if ((stdin_stat.st_dev == stdout_stat.st_dev) &&
>             (stdin_stat.st_ino == stdout_stat.st_ino))
>           same_tty = true;
> 
> it works just fine on all UNIX flavors except for cygwin which has
> different inodes:
> 
>         stdin_stat.st_ino =3989447614
>         stdout_stat.st_ino=3413797845
> 
> what's wrong with cygwin?
> or maybe my method is incorrect?
> so how do I check that 0 and 1 are the same tty?

On Cygwin st_ino is worthless as Chris pointed out already.

OTOH you can just use the value of st_dev to figure that out:

	/dev/tty0 -> st_dev = 1280
	/dev/tty1 -> st_dev = 1281
	...

and when running in notty mode in a console window:

	/dev/conin  -> st_dev = 256
	/dev/conout -> st_dev = 256

Corinna

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