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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:45:29 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Is the problem with isatty returning the wrong value?  If so, did you
> > (or can you) try the following trick?
> > 
> >   #define ISATTY(fd) (isatty(fd) && lseek(fd,SEEK_CUR,0) == -1)
> > 
> > and then use ISATTY instead of isatty?
> 
> That wouldn't work, unfortunately, because the problem is that isatty 
> returns zero.

What does lseek return with the above arguments?