Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:50:21 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vt: add cursor blink interval escape sequence |
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On Fri 2015-03-27 20:35:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015 13:54, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink > > interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until > > the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg > > did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower > > bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested. > > if they want to be crazy, why not let them ? it's not like we generally prevent > the user from destroying their machine. i.e. just require the value to be > 0 > (unless you want to let 0 disable things).
Because anyone with access to console can do this, and we only allow root users to destroy the machine. Pavel
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