From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 25 11:45:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29300 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29292 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:45:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA06195; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:45:48 -0800 Message-Id: <199603251945.LAA06195@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to talkd In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:45:19 PST." <28366.827779519@time.cdrom.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:45:48 -0800 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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