From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 10:53:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA17571 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:53:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17556 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA27707; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:49:21 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603241849.KAA27707@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Patch to talkd To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:49:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com In-Reply-To: <22960.827679559@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 96 06:59:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Umm, you might live to regret that. It's really annoying to get talk requests > > going to your elm window, or your tail -f window or .... > > Of course this could happen before but it's more likely now. > > I think it's more annoying to miss them when they go to ttyv0, and > this has happened to me more times than I can count. I here > _something_ beeping somewhere but am at a loss as to where or what. > > If I don't like talk requests, I can always mesg n in my elm window, > after all! :) As a side effect of this patch what happens to a talk request if your least idle xterm has mesg n turned on? Does the talk fall back to another xterm, or do you get an error now? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD