Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:20:03 -0700 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/746: `talk' forbids talking from write-protected terminal for no good reason Message-ID: <199509272120.OAA14946@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/746; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/746: `talk' forbids talking from write-protected terminal for no good reason
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 22:09:09 +0100 (MET)
As hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de wrote:
>
> The `talk' program has a misfeature in that it cannot be used except
> from a terminal with messages on ("mesg y"). When used from a
> write-protected terminal (messages off, "mesg n"), it complains that
> ``The callee cannot write to this terminal, use "mesg y"''.
This has been discussed before with the conclusion that this feature
is believed to be okay. For example, the callee migh want to respond
to the talk request with a short message via write(1) saying that he's
going to have the talk later, instead of actually invoking the talk
right now.
Lest somebody else objects, i'm going to close this report within a
couple of days.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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