buck@sct60a.sunyct.edu (Jesse R. Buckley Jr.) (11/26/90)
Does anybody know is the permissions on a tty have any importance (besides the read and write ones of course)? -- -Buck ! User n.: A programmer who will believe (buck@sct60a.sunyct.edu) ! anything you tell him.
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (11/27/90)
In article <25090@adm.brl.mil> sct60a.sunyct.edu!buck@sct60a.sunyct.edu (Jesse R. Buckley Jr.) writes: > Does anybody know is the permissions on a tty have any importance >(besides the read and write ones of course)? Some systems use the x bits to indicate whether or not "breakthrough writes" (e.g. "wall", "write", "talk") are permitted on that tty.