Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:04:30 -0900 (AKST) From: loodvrij@gridpoint.com (Bruce J. Keeler) To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, 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: <m0u1mTG-0006etC@cyb> In-Reply-To: <11264.827762066@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 25, 96 01:54:26 pm
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> > > I found another problem. I tried doing a "mesg n" in all my xterms > > except one from my .bashrc. However, the xterm that is started with > > "-e systat -iostat" doesn't read my .bashrc (of course), and > > furthermore, it always has zero idle time for some reason (no I'm not > > touching it). Thus, all the unqualified talk messages show up on that > > window. > > All of this would be much better if the timestamp on the tty device-node > was only updated on input... > These problems seem to be caused by programs like systat and elm which sit there in read() and respond to signals. When the process handles a signal, the atime is set. Doesn't seem right to me. -- Bruce J. Keeler Internet: loodvrij@gridpoint.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The thing with beating your head against a wall is that it feels so *good* when you stop."
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