v11i020: Idle demon

[Greg A. Woods]

In article <TADGUY.90Aug23155542 at abcfd21.larc.nasa.gov> tadguy at abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes:
> In article <1990Aug23.143804.24954 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz at cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes:
> > >                     ...  I'd be a little huffy about having my kermit
> > >session killed in mid-download because I hadn't sent a keystroke in a
> > >while.
> > 
> > But, but, kermit (and all other error-correcting download protocols) send in
> > keystrokes all the time!
> 
> Except that kermit uses /dev/tty, so on many UNIXes, the real tty line
> appears idle, even though characters are going by all the time...

So if your UNIX has this problem, complain to your vendor, and get it
fixed.  You shouldn't complain about a programme which uses one of the
better ways of determining idle time.

If you can't get your UNIX fixed, please try and discover a way in
which idle time can be reliably determined instead of flaming about a
perfectly fine programme (actually I've not compiled it yet, but I
hope to try it very soon).
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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