tech-userlevel archive   Re: Proposal for write(1) addition
Date:        Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:34:03 +0200     From:
Julian Fagir <>     Message-ID:
<20110917013403.65aeb987@adolfputzen>    | The patch supplied
fixes that: When using the option '-c', write   | additionally
checks for a mounted ptyfs and loops through these   |
terminals, comparing ownership. As they only exist if there's a
user   | logged into them, that works.   | Now, you can use the
'newest' terminal of the user if he is logged in.  Please, no,
aside from what others have said, this would totally defeat a
sane working environment.   That is, I make a terminal, and have
it create a utmp entry, and then I simply leave it idle, not
using that terminal for anything - its purpose is to be a place
that random applications that want to communicate with me can
dump garbage onto the screen (and I will see it, sooner or
later).  On the other hand, in the terminals I'm working on, I
explicitly don't make utmp entries, so that they will be