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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:48:46 +0100
From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "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 8:07 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> TIOCSTTY isn't supposed to kill anything.

Oops, by killing, I meant simply to take it exclusively:

              EPERM, unless the caller is root and arg equals 1, in which case
              the  tty is stolen, and all processes that had it as controlling
              tty lose it.

But I realize that this does not necessarily mean that the other
processes cannot read from or write to the tty anymore. Do you know
how to do that? :-)


Vegard

-- 
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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