Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965171AbXAYMd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:33:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965273AbXAYMd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:33:56 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:50119 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965171AbXAYMd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:33:56 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 To: Scott Preece , Pavel Machek , Alessandro Di Marco , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:28:36 +0100 References: <7ELhf-4rC-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FKM6-7Gy-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7G6ME-1g2-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <7GqrZ-6YY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7GuFj-5pj-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <7GwQL-h3-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <7GzF3-4L6-47@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 X-Provags-ID2: V01U2FsdGVkX19XdAwYIfW4ORDR/TVEpfAfEYBtur4hX5heop3+oY5oL8bd2efyPYk5OU1PbpsCoA7fk+Kv3sHtE3LtdsrRkeWnlLyrLGABXT90g1BWwxnYtg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 15 Scott Preece wrote: > My own hot button is making sure that the definition of what > constitutes user activity is managed in exactly one place, whether in > the kernel or not. My naive model would be to put the response at user > level, but to provide a single point of definition in the kernel (say, > /dev/useractivity or the equivalent) that the user-level daemon could > listen to. Imagine one computer serving two users. Two monitors, two keyboards ... -- Funny quotes: 38. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. Fri?, Spammer: hEOzVVU@voJ.7eggert.dyndns.org - 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/