Multiuser device support

[Darren Kenny]

Something like that would make sense, yes - it would probably be the 
responsibility
of the policy engine that would handle the allocation/deallocation, etc...

Darren.

Jon Smirl wrote:

>On 8/3/05, Darren Kenny <Darren.Kenny at sun.com> wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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