From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 25 19:32:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA06389 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA06377 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:32:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA04300; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:32:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:32:47 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: davidg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to talkd In-Reply-To: <199603252329.PAA17795@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * 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. > > Well, try systat then, I verified that it happens on -stable too. > Also, I've seen a similar behavior from elm on HP-UX, someone might > want to try elm too. systat exhibits this behavior; pine does not, nor does kermit. Maybe systat asks for some sort of terminal answerback? Cursor position report or some such? Marc. -- I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.