Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271357AbUJVP2i (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:28:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271331AbUJVP2i (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:28:38 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:58335 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271357AbUJVP2d (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:28:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quota warnings somewhat broken From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jan Kara , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jan Engelhardt In-Reply-To: References: <20041022093423.GC31932@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1098455105.19459.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:25:06 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 13 On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 16:07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why does this code use tty_write_message() in the first place? It's a bit > rude to mess up the users tty without any way to disable it, isn't it? Tradition I guess. It's what every other quota system does, including making annoying messes. In the new world order I guess it should be a netlink message out to dbus and the desktop ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/