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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:40:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimV_zKK-Ubw3vJkDUtrYvB+W06cRR7Nz2vam6fP@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25482.1290031268@localhost>

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 23:01,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:10:24 +0100, Lennart Poettering said:
>
>> When two users A and B are logged in, on tty1 resp. tty2, then as long
>> as tty1 is active user A should get access to the sound card, usb key,
>> .... As soon as we switch to tty2 user B should.
>
> So I change to tty1, plug in my 8G USB memory stick, and I have access to it.
> I start copying something big to it, and change to tty2 to do something else
> while the long copy happens...
>
> ... and my copy craps out because tty1 lost access to the USB.
>
> Brilliant.

Brilliant conclusion. If you have mounted it, you own it. But you can
not make your inactive session mount another new one. It's like this
since ages. Hint: try stuff before hitting reply too fast. :)

Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 15:46 tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 16:13   ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 17:14     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 18:51       ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 19:55         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 20:15           ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 20:49             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 21:29               ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-16 21:42               ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 22:51                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 22:58                   ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:04                     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 23:18                       ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:49                         ` Etched Pixels
2010-11-16 21:36           ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 22:56             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 23:10               ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-16 23:45                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-17 16:31                 ` John Stoffel
2010-11-17 22:01                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-11-17 23:40                   ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2010-11-17 23:56                     ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18  1:27                       ` Greg KH
2010-11-18  1:48                         ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-18  1:53                           ` Greg KH
2010-11-18  2:29                             ` Lennart Poettering
2010-11-18 11:00                             ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 11:23                               ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 12:12                                 ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 12:58                                   ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 13:14                                     ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 14:41                                       ` Alan Cox
2010-11-19 13:21                                         ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-19 15:47                                           ` Alan Cox
2010-11-19 17:07                                             ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-19 18:02                                             ` Greg KH
2010-11-19 18:41                                               ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-20 12:40                                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-12-01 11:15                                                   ` Dr. Werner Fink
2010-11-18 12:04                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-18 10:15                         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 11:55                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-11-18 13:01                             ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <20101201112004.12d78cd7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
2010-12-01 12:32 ` Dr. Werner Fink
     [not found]   ` <tiocgdev1@mdm.bga.com>
2010-12-03 11:48     ` Dr. Werner Fink

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