From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quota warnings somewhat broken
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:25:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098455105.19459.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410220804040.2101@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 16:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Why does this code use tty_write_message() in the first place? It's a bit
> rude to mess up the users tty without any way to disable it, isn't it?
Tradition I guess. It's what every other quota system does, including
making annoying messes. In the new world order I guess it should be a
netlink message out to dbus and the desktop ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 16:12 Quota warnings somewhat broken Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-22 9:34 ` [PATCH] " Jan Kara
2004-10-22 15:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-22 14:25 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-22 17:06 ` [PATCH] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-22 23:35 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-10-25 11:15 ` Jan Kara
2004-10-27 12:29 ` Jan Kara
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