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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:27:02 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sysrq-j: emergency shell
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:51:59AM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> This patch adds support for "SysRq-j", which invokes an emergency
> root shell in the current console.
> 
> Please don't bite my head off for abusing the file API; documentation
> was rather sparse! (Corrections are welcome, though.)
> 
> It seems that keyboard input will go to the shell only half of the
> time; the other half goes to whatever program was running there in
> the first place. I tried to kill the other users of the TTY using
> TIOCSCTTY, but it seems not to have worked. Any ideas?

This should go in together with CVE number attached.
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