[request-sponsor] Re: 6494178 in.talkd should try harder to find a writeable tty

Ok, I have a contributor agreement now: OS0059. So I guess this means I can ask for a sponsor now :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org

[request-sponsor] 6494178 in.talkd should try harder to find a writeable tty

Hello, I created a patch for this RFE: http://www.loria.fr/~glisse/tmp/6494178.diff Basically the way in.talkd works is that it uses the first tty in utmpx that belongs to the right user. This tty may not be writeable. In this patch I modify the loop that looks for the first tty that belongs to