From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Untangling the sleep hotkey mess
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:01:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060107210103.GA5961@osgiliath.brixandersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060107205232.GA6445-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:52:32PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > Having ACPI hotkey events delivered as normal keyboard input makes it
> > difficult to run system scripts as root:root.
>
> But that does nothing to help systems which only expose sleep keys via
> the keyboard controller. It's not practical to get them to generate ACPI
> events - however, it /is/ practical to get ACPI events to generate input
> events. At that point there's nothing to stop a hotkey daemon running as
> root.
So what you really propose is to abstract the handling of ACPI events
by yet another layer, a hotkey daemon?
./Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-07 17:24 Untangling the sleep hotkey mess Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20060107172446.GA3092-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-07 19:24 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
[not found] ` <20060107192444.GA21915-GgQh6P/XBPa901fzNV2Eubv56P54cF3WWmv/VHan8Is@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-07 20:52 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20060107205232.GA6445-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-07 21:01 ` Henrik Brix Andersen [this message]
[not found] ` <20060107210103.GA5961-GgQh6P/XBPa901fzNV2Eubv56P54cF3WWmv/VHan8Is@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-07 21:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-08 12:58 ` [gpm] " Richard Hughes
2006-01-08 13:47 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20060108134744.GA21538-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-08 14:13 ` Richard Hughes
2006-01-09 1:10 ` Yu Luming
2006-01-09 1:21 ` Richard Hughes
2006-01-09 1:14 ` Richard Hughes
2006-01-09 5:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
[not found] ` <200601090007.43578.dtor_core-yWtbtysYrB+LZ21kGMrzwg@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-09 5:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-09 9:43 ` Richard Hughes
[not found] ` <20060109052407.GA4213@srcf.ucam.org>
[not found] ` <20060109052407.GA4213-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-09 6:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
[not found] ` <200601090109.05791.dtor_core-yWtbtysYrB+LZ21kGMrzwg@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-09 9:44 ` Richard Hughes
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