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Subject: Re: Patch to talkd
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> 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.

I assume the atime or ctime will be updated on output?

I hate watchdog programs that kill me because I haven't typed, when
the reason I haven't types is I've been compiling for 30 minutes.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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