On mingw, I'm seeing this test failure: test-ptsname_r.c:117: assertion failed FAIL: test-ptsname_r.exe
The reason is that our ptsname_r implementation assumes that isatty() sets errno when it returns 0, but our isatty() replacement does not do this. This fixes it (at least for mingw): 2012-02-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> isatty: Fix test failure of ptsname_r on native Windows. * lib/isatty.c (_isatty_nothrow): Upon exception, return 0, not -1, and don't set errno. (isatty): Test first whether fd is valid. Set errno when returning 0. --- lib/isatty.c.orig Sat Feb 4 19:11:06 2012 +++ lib/isatty.c Sat Feb 4 19:00:50 2012 @@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ } CATCH_MSVC_INVAL { - result = -1; - errno = EBADF; + result = 0; } DONE_MSVC_INVAL; @@ -59,15 +58,24 @@ # define _isatty_nothrow _isatty #endif +/* Determine whether FD refers to a console device. Return 1 if yes. + Return 0 and set errno if no. (ptsname_r relies on the errno value.) */ int isatty (int fd) { - /* _isatty (fd) tests whether GetFileType of the handle is FILE_TYPE_CHAR. */ + HANDLE h = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd); + if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) + { + errno = EBADF; + return 0; + } + /* _isatty (fd) tests whether GetFileType of the handle is FILE_TYPE_CHAR. + But it does not set errno when it returns 0. */ if (_isatty_nothrow (fd)) { - HANDLE h = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd); - return IsConsoleHandle (h); + if (IsConsoleHandle (h)) + return 1; } - else - return 0; + errno = ENOTTY; + return 0; }