Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Path: utzoo!telly!robohack!woods From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) Subject: Re: v11i020: Idle demon Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc. Date: Sat, 25 Aug 90 17:24:49 GMT Message-ID: <1990Aug25.172449.5061@robohack.UUCP> Summary: not Idle daemon's fault! References: <77@dlss2.UUCP> <1990Aug23.051212.24281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Aug23.143804.24954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 25 In article tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes: > In article <1990Aug23.143804.24954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes: > > > ... I'd be a little huffy about having my kermit > > >session killed in mid-download because I hadn't sent a keystroke in a > > >while. > > > > But, but, kermit (and all other error-correcting download protocols) send in > > keystrokes all the time! > > Except that kermit uses /dev/tty, so on many UNIXes, the real tty line > appears idle, even though characters are going by all the time... So if your UNIX has this problem, complain to your vendor, and get it fixed. You shouldn't complain about a programme which uses one of the better ways of determining idle time. If you can't get your UNIX fixed, please try and discover a way in which idle time can be reliably determined instead of flaming about a perfectly fine programme (actually I've not compiled it yet, but I hope to try it very soon). -- Greg A. Woods woods@{robohack,gate,eci386,tmsoft,ontmoh}.UUCP +1 416 443-1734 [h] +1 416 595-5425 [w] VE3-TCP Toronto, Ontario; CANADA