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From: egisin@orchid.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Kermit on BSD 4.2
Message-ID: <12207@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 87 17:37:05 GMT
References: <1031@percival.UUCP>
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1031@percival.UUCP>, nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi) writes:
> 	The problem is with kermit.  When users are kermiting files
> back and forth stat(2) on their terminal shows that the device has
> not been accessed since the file transfer started.  I know perfectly

C kermit probably opens /dev/tty instead of using stdin and stdout,
so the /dev/tty?? inode times are not updated.
The reason for doing this so one can send stdin or receive stdout as a file.

One fix is to modify kermit to use stderr instead of /dev/tty.