On 2/27/07, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu> wrote:
Hi Monty, On 2/27/07, xiphmont xiph org <xiphmont xiph org> wrote: > An earlier question still stands, and it is central: does UID == > console session ID? To me, this is very much like asking "Does UID == $DISPLAY"? And the answer of course is - not in general.
I am asking so that the answer is a documented-- and thought about-- instead of being a nebulous assumption. For one, it will be difficult to have true session-unique emulation support because those interfaces used /dev permissions with no concept of session, only uid and gid. Monty