From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple consoles
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:32:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0B5CDE.8000700@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120109212125.GO4266@type.famille.thibault.fr>
On 1/9/2012 4:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Phillip Susi, le Mon 09 Jan 2012 16:11:36 -0500, a écrit :
>> Does this make sense or am I missing something?
>
> It used to be planned, but nobody took the job, because X doesn't need
> this (see option -sharevts).
If you do that, you can't use vcs. AFAICS, there won't be any on the
second seat, and if you switch the first seat back to a vc, it will read
input from both keyboards. And what about magic-sysrq? A SAK on either
keyboard will kill the primary X won't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 21:11 Multiple consoles Phillip Susi
2012-01-09 21:21 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-01-09 21:32 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2012-01-09 21:56 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-01-09 22:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-09 22:22 ` Alan Cox
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