[Konsole-devel] Bug#45025: konsole prevents laptop disks from spinning down

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:16 am, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Package: konsole
> Version: 2.1 (and various newer versions - this machine is old)
>
> Konsole writes to /dev/ptmx very often. This means that the mtime of
> /dev/ptmx keeps changing, and consequently the disk has to keep spinning.
> Bad for laptops.

Hi Arnt,

Long time no see :-)

/dev/ptmx is the terminal device used by konsole to communicate with the 
shell, so it's sort of hard not to write to it.

Which distro / kernel are you using?

Cheers,
Waldo
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