[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#544483: Bug#544483: consolekit: Should write its status to a memory-backed FS

[Michael Biebl]

tags 544483 wontfix
thanks

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: consolekit
> Version: 0.3.0-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that with console-kit-daemon started, each time I switch to
> another console, it writes its state to disk.  This limits a lot the
> possibility to save laptop power while e.g. reading documentation over
> several consoles.  Couldn't consolekit rather write its status to a
> memory-backed FS, like /lib/init/rw?

It's a log file which is meant to be kept during reboots (and e.g. used by
ck-history) so writing to a tmpfs is not a good idea.
The use case you are mentioning also sounds a bit artificial.
Usually when you switch consoles you are triggering reads/writes anyway.

Thus I'm marking the bug as wontfix

Michael



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