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Linus Torvalds authored
We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit b0de59b5: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c7: "TTY: fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both insufficient and overkill. It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an idle person from an active one with 'w'. So this tries to fix the problem properly. It marks the shared ptmx node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is active or not. Reported-by:
Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Acked-by:
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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