Re: stty problem

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Author: Dan Lund
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Subject: Re: stty problem
nohup should help with this, shouldn't it?

On Dec 12, 2007 12:01 PM, Matt Graham <> wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Lynn Newton wrote:
> > > I have a script. if I try to run it from another script, it still works
> > > fine, but I get "stty: standard input: Innappropriate ioctl"
>
> This happens when stdin isn't a tty. You can't do the ioctl()s that stty does
> on an ordinary file or a pipe for reasons which should be obvious. My guess
> is that stdin is being redirected somewhere, and something is calling stty
> without checking isatty() first.
>
> > It would help if you gave some kind of a hint what goes on inside the
> > script, since that's where the error would be coming from. I could make a
> > guess, but I'd be basing it on no real information.
>
> The complete script; show it to us.
>
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