Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!tgould!awm From: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A "fix" for wall. Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 89 20:20:26 GMT References: <8903290045.aa18749@SPARK.BRL.MIL> <9740087@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 25 In-reply-to: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM's message of 5 Apr 89 02:36:38 GMT In article <9740087@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes: >> How do you plan on determining the "correct" user/hostname pair to send >> the message to? >How does talk pick the right one? It takes the first one it finds whose >tty/pty is writable. That seems like a pretty good algorithm. If you want >to control it, don't make your ttys all writable. That way, you (the user) >get to decide which one. What you are saying, then, is that whenever a window system terminal emulator is iconified, it should _automatically_ deny write permission to the pty it owns (kind of like "biff n" and "mesg n")? Are you listening, xterm implementors? This should be trivial, anyone care to post a patch? Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ