Re: makedev: /dev/tty([0-9])* should not have 666 permissions

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Cc: Jan Minar <jjminar@fastmail.fm>, 244751@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: makedev: /dev/tty([0-9])* should not have 666 permissions
From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:40:13 +1000
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:50, Jan Minar <jjminar@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> It seems like they should be 660, not 600, as I suggested (wall(1) and
> talkd(1) would break otherwise, probably).

What prevents wall from sending those escape sequences?

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