Re: Valid tty problem

[chip]

in reply to Valid tty problem

You're working way too hard. Just use the -t file test, as documented in "perlfunc".

[tilly]

He's not trying to make his program know whether he was handed a tty. He's trying to hand something else a tty that his program controls.

The filetest, therefore, doesn't help.

[chip]

"Oops."