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Should be able to use /dev/tty instead of stdin #2

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I think the Stdin module should read from /dev/tty instead of stdin (or else the user should be able to choose). Otherwise writing interactive programs that read input from stdin (e.g. fzf in cat ... | fzf) will have problems.

Specifically, when I tried doing that with minttea, I got an ENOTTY error message (although the program still seemed to function as expected). Changing the stdin module to start with let stdin_fd = Unix.descr_of_in_channel (In_channel.open_bin "/dev/tty") got rid of it.

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