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revoke()

Posted Jan 28, 2010 17:59 UTC (Thu) by wingo (subscriber, #26929)
In reply to: revoke() by chrish
Parent article: LCA: Graphics driver ponies

I don't know, but I'll hazard a guess: the input and output devices of an X session are file descriptors, and have to be handed to and from the display manager and different userspace, and there's nothing preventing one user from keeping a dupped copy of one of the devices.

At least this comment should provoke someone knowledgeable to correct me :)


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