On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] >> 5.) While I paplay, I try to go Ctrl-Alt-F1. While I'm not prevented >> from doing so, paplay believes it should pause playing while I'm away >> from the gui tty. Now, who's the genius that figured out this >> "feature?" > > I did. And it actually is a feature. It fixes a long standing security > issue. [snip] I'm missing how write access (as opposed to read/recording) to an audio device creates a material security vulnerability. It seems that the majority of the complaints are that playback stops and that it surprises the user. Recording stopping may also be surprising, but it's easy to explain the security argument there. If the answer is "differentiating read and write access is hard/not possible with the current API" then thats what it is, but simply blaming security is going to baffle people. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
