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Message-ID: <20101116214250.GB17824@tango.0pointer.de> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:42:50 +0100 From: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Werner Fink <werner@...e.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device On Tue, 16.11.10 20:49, Alan Cox (alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > /dev/tty* and sysfs nodes don't track permissions, owner with each other, > so you are providing interfaces that either expose information they > shouldn't (which screen is valuable info in some environments), or don't > expose info they should. Well, I find the informatoin who is logged in much more valuable then the information whether I am active or not. And the who is logged in informatin I can find out with a simple stat() on the tty caller. > sysfs also lacks vhangup so you can't fix it right now either. Which is a feature, no a bug. It would be kinda messy if the service which manages device access based on whose session is active would always be forcibly stopped from doing so if somebody calls vhangup(). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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