Re: [PATCH] Quota warnings somewhat broken

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 10/22/04

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    To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:25:06 +0100
    
    

    On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 16:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Why does this code use tty_write_message() in the first place? It's a bit
    > rude to mess up the users tty without any way to disable it, isn't it?

    Tradition I guess. It's what every other quota system does, including
    making annoying messes. In the new world order I guess it should be a
    netlink message out to dbus and the desktop ;)

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