<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alexandre CONFIANT-LATOUR <alex@user-unfriendly.net><br><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "StompDagger1@yahoo.com" <stompdagger1@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "xorg@lists.x.org" <xorg@lists.x.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 20, 2012 1:03 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: why does -sharevts is so important for multseat setup?<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 20/08/2012 11:32, <a ymailto="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com">StompDagger1@yahoo.com</a> wrote:<br>> I see, still why not increase the number in the kernel?<br><br>I needed it to be "on-the-fly" because i can't know in advance the number of concurrent users. Because X in not ran as root, its process can't add tty.<br><br>I saw a workaround in the Xdummy code <<a href="http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/Xdummy" target="_blank">http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/Xdummy</a>>. This hack uses LD_PRELOAD to change standard system "open" function behavior and create a fifo "on-the-fly". This fifo is opened in place of the tty. The fifo is only used to trick X and let some test pass.<br><br>In my case, -sharevts worked well so preferred to avoid this acrobatic hack.<br><br><br>I understand but in my case, it renders the second seat almost impossible to work on.<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>