On Fri 2015-03-27 20:35:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015 13:54, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink > > interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until > > the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg > > did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower > > bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested. > > if they want to be crazy, why not let them ? it's not like we generally > prevent > the user from destroying their machine. i.e. just require the value to be > > 0 > (unless you want to let 0 disable things).
Because anyone with access to console can do this, and we only allow root users to destroy the machine. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/