PulseAudio

xiphmont at xiph.org xiphmont at xiph.org
Tue Feb 27 20:44:10 UTC 2007


On 2/27/07, William Jon McCann <mccann at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Monty,
>
> On 2/27/07, xiphmont at xiph.org <xiphmont at 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




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