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SubjectRe: questions to planned lock-functionality for vts
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hello

> By moving these calls into the kernel, you don't make them necessarily
> fail-safe. This can all be implemented in user-space. By switching to
> a dedicated VT (say, VT12) and running VT_SETMODE+VT_PROCESS, you lock
> the machine. You can now implement your screensaver. If you run a
> spawner-process, you're even safe if your screensaver crashes.

Yes but this would lock the whole machine. Our plan is to make it posible
to lock a specific set of VTs - owned by the user who wants to lock.

e.g if user A locked all his VTs user B would still be able to switch to
his VTs.

Thanks
Simone Weiss



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