This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
stream, such as a rsh or vi pipeline.
The error message is:
stty: TIOCGETD: Operation not supported
It's immediately obvious to the knowledgable hacker type, but not
exactly comforting to the user who's not native to unix. It's
especially confusing if there's a stty command in their .cshrc and
it's showing up on rsh output.
(Fixes PR #bin/573)
Submitted by: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)