Why 4BSD 'stty' uses stdout instead of stdin

ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA
Wed Aug 15 01:04:12 AEST 1984


From:      Ron Natalie <ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA>

Actually, 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



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