Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:02:48 +0100 | Subject | Re: questions to planned lock-functionality for vts | From | simone.weiss@fau ... |
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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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