Re: tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 16.11.10 20:49, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> /dev/tty* and sysfs nodes don't track permissions, owner with each other,
> so you are providing interfaces that either expose information they
> shouldn't (which screen is valuable info in some environments), or don't
> expose info they should.

Well, I find the informatoin who is logged in much more valuable then
the information whether I am active or not. And the who is logged in
informatin I can find out with a simple stat() on the tty caller.

> sysfs also lacks vhangup so you can't fix it right now either.

Which is a feature, no a bug. It would be kinda messy if the service
which manages device access based on whose session is active would
always be forcibly stopped from doing so if somebody calls vhangup().

Lennart

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