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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:45:48 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to talkd 
Message-ID:  <199603251945.LAA06195@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:45:19 PST." <28366.827779519@time.cdrom.com> 

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>> This is hardly serious anyway, we could run with it this way for a while and
>> see what actually happens in practice.
>
>My thoughts exactly.  If it looks like it's confusing more than it
>helps, I'll be the first to race to back it out.  I just want to
>give it a fair shake first.
>
>As Poul-H says, we also should only update the tty mod time on input,
>not output.  That would solve the other problem people have been
>talking about where it gets lost in some scrolling text.

   As far as I was ever aware, that's what the code *does* do. I've never seen
the idle time affected by output. Hmmm.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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