[Gllug] Off Topic: C File Descriptors

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:02PM +0000, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> Is there a way of determining whether standard output and
> standard error are going to the same file/device?

use fstat() & compare st_dev and st_ino

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