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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: EXCL without CREAT
Message-ID: <874@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 05:55:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 05:55:25 1985
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Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
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In article <5517@allegra.UUCP> jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) writes:
>I can think of no use for TIOCEXCL ...
>... TIOCEXCL should go away.

I *need* to use it.  When I log in to my machine through another and type the
command "download prog", it "cat"s the binary file into the machine.  Needless
to say, a broadcast message would screw this up and I wouldn't see it anyway.
Using "mesg n" is useless as it doesn't stop super-user.
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