On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:40:13AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > 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? Good intentions of its coders -- they are filtered out (or they should be). Both talkd & wall are sgid tty, and they are controlled channels of writing things to the user terminal(s). The user can dismiss them by ``mesg n''. Maybe the escape sequences should be banned altogether, but even then wall & talkd should be allowed to do their job. -- "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad."
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