1.5.5-1: fprintf(stdout, ...) writes to serial port when used by apcupsd

[Alexander Schremmer]

Hi,

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> This is not a cygwin problem.  It is a problem with a program 
> that assumes that it has a valid stdout.  It is perfectly
> possible that a program can be started with no stdout, stdin, or stderr.

The author said that it must a problem of cygwin ...

Is it enough to call ftell(stdout) and check for != -1 to check for a valid
stdout? Then I'd submit that patch to apcupsd.

Kind regards,
Alexander


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