Multiuser device support

[Jon Smirl]

On 8/3/05, Darren Kenny <Darren.Kenny at sun.com> wrote:
> I am not sure how you could allocate devices to an XDMCP session, eg.
> where a user is connected to a server via XDMCP, but they got someone to
> insert a CD-ROM in for them  - who should see such an event? I would
> guess that if there is someone logged into the machines console, they
> should, but if not, then maybe all sessions would be notified (in this
> case the devices isn't specifically allocated to a session since there
> isn't one on the console.... ) Do you see what I mean?

On a multiuser system wouldn't you need a command to ask for ownership
of a shared resource like the CDROM? So you ask for ownership, get the
device and then stick your CDROM in. The CDROM should probably stay in
the locked state until someone asks for it.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com
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