After a long battle with technology, Lynn Newton wrote:
> > I have a script.  if I try to run it from another script, it still works
> > fine, but I get "stty: standard input: Innappropriate ioctl"

This happens when stdin isn't a tty.  You can't do the ioctl()s that stty does 
on an ordinary file or a pipe for reasons which should be obvious.  My guess 
is that stdin is being redirected somewhere, and something is calling stty 
without checking isatty() first.

> It would help if you gave some kind of a hint what goes on inside the 
> script, since that's where the error would be coming from. I could make a
> guess, but I'd be basing it on no real information.

The complete script; show it to us.

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