From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:54:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that isatty is only guaranteed to return true for slave ends of
X-Git-Tag: v2.0c1~141
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12e1595e2820a1f6651cbd2cf938ce31d9e3ea84;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarify that isatty is only guaranteed to return true for slave ends of
terminals, not the master end (though it does, on most systems.)
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 8350e06e6d88..8544f6a94151 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -3468,7 +3468,7 @@ posix_fdopen(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 static char posix_isatty__doc__[] =
 "isatty(fd) -> Boolean\n\
 Return true if the file descriptor 'fd' is an open file descriptor\n\
-connected to a terminal.";
+connected to the slave end of a terminal.";
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_isatty(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)