hello > By moving these calls into the kernel, you don't make them necessarily > fail-safe. This can all be implemented in user-space. By switching to > a dedicated VT (say, VT12) and running VT_SETMODE+VT_PROCESS, you lock > the machine. You can now implement your screensaver. If you run a > spawner-process, you're even safe if your screensaver crashes.
Yes but this would lock the whole machine. Our plan is to make it posible to lock a specific set of VTs - owned by the user who wants to lock. e.g if user A locked all his VTs user B would still be able to switch to his VTs. Thanks Simone Weiss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/