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> But is there any easy way we can distinguish between pipes and (regular files,
> character devices)? With stdin, stdout, stderr we can assume they are pipes,
> if they are not TTYs. But we can't assume that for other file descriptors - we
> can use fd_props, if available, to find out. Hence the code only checks stdout
> & stderr using isatty().

DOS only has two types of file things: devices and disk files.  We
don't need the seek fix on devices.

> BTW stdaux and stdprn are not TTYs according to isatty(). Is this a bug?

Hmmm... probably.  The code in isatty.c looks suspect; it only returns
true if a device is both stdin *and* stdout.  It should probably also
just check for device vs file.