[ale] X hangs at start

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 21 March 2003 12:14 pm, John Wells wrote:
> 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.

That's the point of the first command.  tty only returns success if there 
is a controlling tty.

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

All I know is that if worked for years.  Strange.

Michael
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