Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console-kit instances...
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:51:03
Message-Id: 1290746838.3200.4.camel@WOPR
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Console-kit instances... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > is it really necessary, that console-kit runs 65 instances of
5 > itsself???
6
7 They're not instances (whatever that means anyway). They're threads...
8 the short of it is... it's already been discussed . It's not hurting
9 anything (much) and upstream takes a "better safe than sorry" approach
10 (there is a thread to monitor each possible virtual console). It's easy
11 enough to patch if you you think it's a big deal (but it isn't).
12
13 -a