Revert r41662 and the part of 41552 that originally caused the problem
(calling ftell(stdin) doesn't seem defined). So we won't test errors
from ftell unless we can do it portably.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py
index ade7a6f..bde3202 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py
@@ -108,13 +108,6 @@
print "should not be able to seek on sys.stdin"
try:
- sys.stdin.tell()
-except IOError:
- pass
-else:
- print "should not be able to tell on sys.stdin"
-
-try:
sys.stdin.truncate()
except IOError:
pass
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c8e8981..d675706 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
-- Added a workaround for file.tell() to raise IOError when the file
- is a tty on every platforms as documented in our library reference.
-
- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correct even with unsigned longs
diff --git a/Objects/fileobject.c b/Objects/fileobject.c
index 1de520b..259a423 100644
--- a/Objects/fileobject.c
+++ b/Objects/fileobject.c
@@ -482,13 +482,6 @@
static Py_off_t
_portable_ftell(FILE* fp)
{
-#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_FTELL
- /* ftell doesn't fail for tty fds on FreeBSD and some others */
- if (isatty(fileno(fp))) {
- errno = ESPIPE;
- return -1;
- }
-#endif
#if !defined(HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT)
return ftell(fp);
#elif defined(HAVE_FTELLO) && SIZEOF_OFF_T >= 8
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 83078e7..2900799 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 41662 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 39267 .
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59 for python 2.5.
#
@@ -20118,67 +20118,6 @@
fi
-echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for broken ftell()" >&5
-echo $ECHO_N "checking for broken ftell()... $ECHO_C" >&6
-if test "${ac_cv_broken_ftell+set}" = set; then
- echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
-else
-
-if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
- ac_cv_broken_ftell=no
-else
- cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* confdefs.h. */
-_ACEOF
-cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
-cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* end confdefs.h. */
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-int main()
-{
- long val = ftell(stdin);
- if (val != -1)
- exit(0);
- exit(1);
-}
-
-_ACEOF
-rm -f conftest$ac_exeext
-if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
- (eval $ac_link) 2>&5
- ac_status=$?
- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
- (exit $ac_status); } && { ac_try='./conftest$ac_exeext'
- { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
- (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
- ac_status=$?
- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
- (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
- ac_cv_broken_ftell=yes
-else
- echo "$as_me: program exited with status $ac_status" >&5
-echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
-sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
-
-( exit $ac_status )
-ac_cv_broken_ftell=no
-fi
-rm -f core *.core gmon.out bb.out conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-fi
-
-echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_broken_ftell" >&5
-echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_broken_ftell" >&6
-if test "$ac_cv_broken_ftell" = yes
-then
-
-cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
-#define HAVE_BROKEN_FTELL 1
-_ACEOF
-
-fi
-
# Before we can test tzset, we need to check if struct tm has a tm_zone
# (which is not required by ISO C or UNIX spec) and/or if we support
# tzname[]
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0550e4f..75a33a1 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2955,28 +2955,6 @@
[Define if poll() sets errno on invalid file descriptors.])
fi
-AC_MSG_CHECKING(for broken ftell())
-AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_broken_ftell, [
-AC_TRY_RUN([
-#include <stdio.h>
-int main()
-{
- long val = ftell(stdin);
- if (val != -1)
- exit(0);
- exit(1);
-}
-],
-ac_cv_broken_ftell=yes,
-ac_cv_broken_ftell=no,
-ac_cv_broken_ftell=no)])
-AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_cv_broken_ftell)
-if test "$ac_cv_broken_ftell" = yes
-then
- AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BROKEN_FTELL, 1,
- [Define if ftell() set errno on tty files.])
-fi
-
# Before we can test tzset, we need to check if struct tm has a tm_zone
# (which is not required by ISO C or UNIX spec) and/or if we support
# tzname[]
diff --git a/pyconfig.h.in b/pyconfig.h.in
index 2d4fabf..47723de 100644
--- a/pyconfig.h.in
+++ b/pyconfig.h.in
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@
/* Define to 1 if you have the <bluetooth.h> header file. */
#undef HAVE_BLUETOOTH_H
-/* Define if ftell() set errno on tty files. */
-#undef HAVE_BROKEN_FTELL
-
/* Define if nice() returns success/failure instead of the new priority. */
#undef HAVE_BROKEN_NICE