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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:40:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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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