From 12e1595e2820a1f6651cbd2cf938ce31d9e3ea84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Wouters Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:54:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that isatty is only guaranteed to return true for slave ends of terminals, not the master end (though it does, on most systems.) --- Modules/posixmodule.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c index 8350e06e6d8..8544f6a9415 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)