From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751779AbbC1Huc (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:50:32 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:49962 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751213AbbC1Hu3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:50:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:50:21 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Scot Doyle , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michael Kerrisk , Jiri Slaby , Tomi Valkeinen , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vt: add cursor blink interval escape sequence Message-ID: <20150328075021.GB5248@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> References: <20150225094946.GA24627@amd> <20150226220243.GC9935@amd> <20150325111949.GA24230@kroah.com> <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2015-03-27 20:35:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015 13:54, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink > > interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until > > the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg > > did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower > > bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested. > > if they want to be crazy, why not let them ? it's not like we generally prevent > the user from destroying their machine. i.e. just require the value to be > 0 > (unless you want to let 0 disable things). Because anyone with access to console can do this, and we only allow root users to destroy the machine. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vt: add cursor blink interval escape sequence Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:50:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20150328075021.GB5248@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> References: <20150225094946.GA24627@amd> <20150226220243.GC9935@amd> <20150325111949.GA24230@kroah.com> <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Scot Doyle , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michael Kerrisk , Jiri Slaby , Tomi Valkeinen , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fbdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2015-03-27 20:35:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015 13:54, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink > > interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until > > the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg > > did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower > > bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested. > > if they want to be crazy, why not let them ? it's not like we generally prevent > the user from destroying their machine. i.e. just require the value to be > 0 > (unless you want to let 0 disable things). Because anyone with access to console can do this, and we only allow root users to destroy the machine. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 07:50:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vt: add cursor blink interval escape sequence Message-Id: <20150328075021.GB5248@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20150225094946.GA24627@amd> <20150226220243.GC9935@amd> <20150325111949.GA24230@kroah.com> <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> In-Reply-To: <20150328003503.GB27135@vapier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scot Doyle , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michael Kerrisk , Jiri Slaby , Tomi Valkeinen , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fbdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Fri 2015-03-27 20:35:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015 13:54, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink > > interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until > > the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg > > did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower > > bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested. > > if they want to be crazy, why not let them ? it's not like we generally prevent > the user from destroying their machine. i.e. just require the value to be > 0 > (unless you want to let 0 disable things). Because anyone with access to console can do this, and we only allow root users to destroy the machine. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html