From 6eb73d9046b8d122f8a402ebefe6dc0de768dfc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lethosor <lethosor@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:14:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fall back to stdout if tty fails to open

May help with #1477
---
 library/Console-posix.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/library/Console-posix.cpp b/library/Console-posix.cpp
index 344f3642c..6fb1cbff3 100644
--- a/library/Console-posix.cpp
+++ b/library/Console-posix.cpp
@@ -840,6 +840,12 @@ bool Console::init(bool dont_redirect)
         if (!freopen("stdout.log", "w", stdout))
             ;
         d->dfout_C = fopen("/dev/tty", "w");
+        if (!d->dfout_C)
+        {
+            fprintf(stderr, "could not open tty\n");
+            d->dfout_C = fopen("/dev/stdout", "w");
+            return false;
+        }
     }
     std::cin.tie(this);
     clear();