From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755793Ab2AIVcS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:32:18 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:29309 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754932Ab2AIVcR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:32:17 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=JJy5Qr2b c=1 sm=0 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:17 a=zQGhUK9Iw4MA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=h07iDeEFhKFip9vjwasA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=pkiy876LBrpJhbxj:21 a=TQP-17Tf4yB6CwQE:21 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.78.168.186 Message-ID: <4F0B5CDE.8000700@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:32:14 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Thibault , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple consoles References: <4F0B5808.2010900@cfl.rr.com> <20120109212125.GO4266@type.famille.thibault.fr> In-Reply-To: <20120109212125.GO4266@type.famille.thibault.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?