> On Tue, 16.11.10 12:38, Linus Torvalds (
torvalds@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <mzxreary@0pointer.de> wrote:
>>
>>> No you don't. Because that is not a desktop use case.
>>>
>> See my other response. You don't care AT ALL, because by your
>> judgement, all desktop is is a web browser and a word processor.
>>
> Well, I do care. But I care more about *real* problems. For example the
> fact that "updatedb" makes your system sluggish while it runs. Or
> "man-db". Or anything else that runs from cron in the background.
>
> Doing this tty dance won't help you much with background tasks such as
> man-db, updatedb and cron and its jobs, will it? They don't have
> ttys. Sorry for you. meh! Meh! meh! meh! meh!
>
> (And along comes systemd, which actually handles this properly, since it
> actually has a proper notion of what a service is, and what a session
> is, and what an app is. And which hence can control all this sanely.)
>
> Binding this to a tty is just solves a tiny bit of the real problem:
> i.e. your own use of make -j. End of story.
>
> Lennart
>
>
