in reply to Re: STDIN schizofrenia
in thread STDIN schizofrenia

Cool. Well, the better way is to try to open /dev/tty, anyway (which I referenced in the original post, too). I was just going off of "use STDERR as a reference to the controlling terminal" notion that is used in many tools... like vim, for example, when you pipe the file to edit in off of STDIN. 
[me@host scratch]$ ptyexec man vim | grep stdin
       -           The file to edit is read from stdin.  Commands are 
+read from stderr, which should be a tty.
[me@host scratch]$

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:Wq
Not an editor command: Wq

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Re: STDIN schizofrenia
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 14, 2003 at 08:40 UTC
    I've send a bugreport to p5p about this issue.

    Abigail

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Re: STDIN schizofrenia
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 15, 2003 at 22:39 UTC
    To make it more confusing, dupping file descriptor 2 for read works fine, even in 5.8.x and 5.9. 

        open STDERRIN, "<&2" or die $!;       # Works.
    open STDERRIN, "<&STDERR" or die $!;  # Does not work.

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