Re: [PATCH] Quota warnings somewhat broken

[Alan Cox]

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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