I agree.  I think we should generalize EBADF to attempts to do something fd-ish on a port without a fd.  So we raise on EBADF, but otherwise return #t or #f depending on the result of isatty().

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:49 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

> Although there's the case when it's handed a port who's file descriptor
> is not valid, which would likely indicate something is terribly wrong,
> or the port was closed.

If these cases can be distinguished reliably, it makes sense to raise an
error for them. Setting "errno = 0" before the call may allow for that.

> Otherwise, I'll have my Chibi Scheme implementation only raise an error
> if it's not handed a port.

I agree this should raise an error. Also if it's a port that
intrinsically doesn't have an fd associated with it (e.g. your earlier
example, a string port).