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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Security problem with xterm?
Message-ID: <3646@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:16:56 GMT
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>"xterm -C" would look like an ugly hack if you had a generic
>console-logging client.  Of course, you might look at this as just
>a different and inconvenient way to rewrite syslogd...

*I* sure wouldn't look at it that way.  The functionality provided by
the "syslog" mechanism and by mechanisms such as TIOCCONS are distinct
and only weakly related; see my response to David Elliott elsewhere in
this thread.