Darren J Moffat wrote:
>>So it seems that our ACL proposal for other console devices in >>/etc/logindevperm is fine, and it does not introduce any regression. > > > What your proposal does is allow multiple people access > to the device at the same time. That isn't possible today. > > I believe that makes it worse because now you have the > potential for them both to be trying to use the device > at the same time. > I think that allocate(1) is mostly used in TX to manage audio like devices, where /dev/audio is commented out in /etc/logindevperm. On normal systems without TX, allocate(1) is not used, instead, logindevperm(4) is used to manage all console devices. So IMO, it seems no problem for our proposal, though I agree that makes somewhat worse.
