Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268495AbTGLTee (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:34:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268502AbTGLTee (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:34:34 -0400 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:59302 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268495AbTGLTec (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:34:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:38:21 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements In-reply-to: <20030712153719.GA206@elf.ucw.cz> To: Pavel Machek Cc: swsusp-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1058038701.2482.25.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712140057.GC284@elf.ucw.cz> <1058021722.1687.16.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712153719.GA206@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1379 Lines: 39 Hi. On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 03:37, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > - nice display > > > > - user can abort at any time during suspend (oh, I forgot, I wanted > > > > to...) by just pressing Escape > > > > > > That seems like missfeature. We don't want joe random user that is at > > > the console to prevent suspend by just pressing Escape. Maybe magic > > > key to do that would be acceptable... > > > > Magic key? Do you mean a password? I suppose that could be a > > Documentation/sysrq.txt. Magic sysrq driver will answer some > interesting questions like "how to press esc on the serial line", etc, > and it is also /proc configurable. Oh so you just be having (eg) to press SysRq-Escape? Isn't that just security by obscurity? I'd rather go for the password idea. Sounds like there should be a few options for what is required to abort with one chosen at make config time. 1.0 tomorrow unless there's anything big in the meantime. Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/