Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 02:21:20 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Message-ID: <199603251021.CAA01337@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <23407.827692718@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* It does - this just changes the selection of a default when such a tty * _isn't_ given. Honestly, I don't understand all the contraversy over * this patch - it's a far better algorithm than simply grabbing the * first tty, regardless of how useful a place to reach the person it * actually is. The problem people have is that the tty selection is now dynamic and not static. As I said in my previous mail, I make sure that all incoming talk requests (without the third argument) show up in one window that's always visible, so even if I can't hear it or not in front of the machine at that time, I can see it when I get back. Now, if I leave my machine and someone talks to me, the message will show up in some window that I might never get back for many days! I'm sorry, I don't think this is a good idea at all. If the talk message showing up in ttyv0 is such a problem, why don't you mesg n on it anyway? Satoshi
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