Failure of iswind()
Bruce Lilly
bruce at balilly
Sat May 25 21:52:22 AEST 1991
In article <1991May24.203238.7990 at sci.ccny.cuny.edu> jeffrey at sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
>Just for fun, I tried the following command from my VAX to my
>ethernet'ted 3b1:
>
>% rsh notvax /usr/games/klondike
Note that TFM says that an *interactive* command (e.g. vi and most games)
should *not* be run using remsh, by rather by rlogin to the machine.
>Now, considering the fact that I'm not logged in on the console, this
>should fail. This game, like many others, use iswind() to see if I'm
>on the bitmapped screen. The logic should stop me if I'm not.
>But, it doesn't! It overwrites the console display (without regard as
>to what or who is going on) with the game screen!
>
>Any idea why all these games (klondike/mahjongg/rocks/bugs) all have
>this behavior? Is it only seen when using the ethernet package? Does
>this happen if someone dials in via the OBM? Is iswind() just plain
>drain-bamaged?
I don't recall why (probably because the TAM version does something
strange as you describe), but I wrote a small routine which checks the
controlling tty to determine if a process is running on the console. It's
near the end of kfeature 1.1 if you want to take a look at it.
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