Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Why 4BSD 'stty' uses stdout instead of stdin Message-ID: <12450@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:04:12 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12450 Posted: Tue Aug 14 11:04:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:21:05 EDT Lines: 8 From: Ron NatalieActually, people more jealously guard their TTY's read permission than their write permissions. In mundane UNIX systems all kinds of things expect to be able to write on other user's terminals, but allowing reads/sttys is a real hassle/security violation. -Ron