linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:28:36 +0100
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Alessandro Di Marco <dmr@....it>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vojtech@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com> wrote:

> My own hot button is making sure that the definition of what
> constitutes user activity is managed in exactly one place, whether in
> the kernel or not. My naive model would be to put the response at user
> level, but to provide a single point of definition in the kernel (say,
> /dev/useractivity or the equivalent) that the user-level daemon could
> listen to.

Imagine one computer serving two users. Two monitors, two keyboards ...
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