karim@uncecs.edu (Omar A. Karim) (02/15/89)
This may have been noticed already and has perturbed me recently: one cannot set 'mesg n' or 'biff y' on windows in sunview (cmdtool). The reason is that the tty is still owned by root. Have I discovered a bug or created one? Thanks Omar A. Karim Dept Phys, UNCW [[ You are imagining a bug that doesn't exist. SunView does not change the ownership on the pseudo ttys that it opens (it usually can't). Both mesg and biff do their work by modifying the permission bits on the terminal that is open on (I think) stderr. See volume 6 issue 195 for more details. --wnl ]]