Control: tags -1 = wontfix On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:02:02PM -0800, Ben Wong wrote: > I read that mesg and write were removed recently because "people use > more secure methods of chatting nowadays." I am guessing this is > related to the recent security problem where Debian defaulted to 'mesg > n' and 'write' was not filtering Esc. Simply removing the programs may > seem like a fix, but unfortunately it is not so easy.
Removing them is from my POV the right way to go. I somewhat expect other mainline distros to do the same, sooner or later. > These are POSIX.2 shell tools which work universally and it would be a > shame if Debian were to be the incompatible UNIX. POSIX could/should change, I guess. Chris
