Re: top in newer kernels

Steve Payne (srp20@cam.ac.uk)
Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:43:56 +0000 (GMT)

> Hi Stephen,
>
> What are your permissions for /dev/tty? Mine are 666. The message you
> mention is output when top can't open /dev/tty with O_RDONLY...
>
Yeah, that was it. Is this a _secure_ fix though? It now means I can pipe
things to anyone's tty from anywhere :(

srp

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