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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?

  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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