[ale] X hangs at start

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Fri Mar 21 12:14:12 EST 2003


Chris Fowler said:
>>tty > /dev/null && stty -ixon -ixoff
>
> Why would you want to send the output of the tty command to /dev/null.
> All it does is disply the controlling ttyname to STDOUT.

I assume to make sure you are connected via a terminal before executing stty.

Course, I'm not sure what situations the file would be evaluated in while
not connected via a terminal.


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