Subject: Re: bin/7713: you can wall while mesg n
To: None <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/05/1999 14:23:59
David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu> writes:
> 	Add check for your own tty being group writable, unless you're
> 	root (in which case issuing a warning might be useful.) Using
> 	stderr to get the tty is probably advisable, and if there
> 	doesn't seem to be a tty it's probably better to let the wall
> 	go through...

What do other sytems do in this case?



cgd
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