On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:52:32PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > Having ACPI hotkey events delivered as normal keyboard input makes it > > difficult to run system scripts as root:root. > > But that does nothing to help systems which only expose sleep keys via > the keyboard controller. It's not practical to get them to generate ACPI > events - however, it /is/ practical to get ACPI events to generate input > events. At that point there's nothing to stop a hotkey daemon running as > root.
So what you really propose is to abstract the handling of ACPI events by yet another layer, a hotkey daemon? ./Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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