On 2017-04-05 14:27, Paul Eggert wrote:
In the meantime I suppose that the best plain 'tty' can do is report the configuration error and exit.
After seeing a more-recent bug report <https://bugs.gnu.org/78244> about this I came up with what I think is a better patch for Bug#26371, and installed it into Savannah coreutils here:
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=aec89a3e7dfaed1545b2dcaa8525df21cf61a37e Thanks again for reporting this (8 years ago!).
