Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:40:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device |
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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
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