lint question

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2679 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>	if(fprintf(stderr, "...: operation failed\n") == FAIL) {
>		if(!(fp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w"))) {
>			if(!(fp = fopen("/dev/console", "w"))) {

Not really, because if somebody has redirected stderr it is probably
for a good reason, and such policy should not be overridden by an
application that doesn't know what's going on outside.  Blathering
on the console is particularly obnoxious in most cases.