On 2012-06-09 11:29 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 10:36:00AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Also, shouldn't the test check whether opening /dev/tty was actually
>> successful?
>
> I assumed in that instance that poll would simply fail :-)
Well, it returns 0 which you treat as success. From the manpage:
The field fd contains a file descriptor for an open file. If this
field is negative, then the corresponding events field is ignored and
the revents field returns zero.
Cheers,
Sven
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