Re: Proposal for write(1) addition

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20110917022007.402466df@adolfputzen>,
Julian Fagir  <tech-userlevel%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>Not having an utmp entry usually only considers being currently online on
>that machine or not - and in turn leading to nobody being able to write you
>messages while you're offline. Imho also a great drawback of the current
>write.

Ok, consider me running script(1) then. Do you want to bother the script pty?

>Not having a utmp-entry is imho the wrong way of staying private - and in
>most cases it's not even possible. That's exactly what mesg is for. If you
>want to stay private, just take away permissions, that's the only way to go.

So you propose to go and change all programs that do this now, not just
write(1)?

Anyway, I fixed tmux to put utmp entries so that should not be an issue anymore.

christos