Re: [Utopia] gnome-vfs patch, take one

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 21:03 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 20:41 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > I'm always wondering how gvm is going to work out, when your various people
> > are simultaneously logged into one machine and all running gvm. Using
> > X-terminals for example. Multiple gvm's racing for a hotplugged volume, volumes
> > being unmounted when one of the users logs out.. But i don't know if that
> > really falls into gvm's scope... 

> The easy answer is that only the g-v-m instance(s) for the user at the
> console will have sufficient privileges to mount

Remember that some distributions (i.e. Debian) don't have the concept of
"at the console" and use groups and permissions to access devices.

If I login to my desktop, and then my gf uses System->New Login, we can
both access the sound devices [1], CD-ROM drivers, etc.

Ross