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Subject: Re: Newbie question about strings in C ..
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:07:27 GMT
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DJ Delorie wrote:

> > There isn't even a standard way to check that stdin isn't coming
> > from a file.
> 
> What's wrong with fstat(fileno(stdin), &s) ?

Neither fstat() nor fileno() is defined in ANSI/ISO C, which is what
I meant by "standard".

S.