Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: KeyboardSignal ? does it still work???? | Date | 18 Jun 1998 13:01:06 +0200 |
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In article <k2u35jh9xo.fsf@zero.aec.at>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: >Jan Gyselinck <JAN.GYSELINCK@student.kuleuven.ac.be> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> While browsing init and inittab manpages, I found a kbrequest-item. It >> gets run when the KeyboardSignal key is pressed, but it doesn't seem to >> work. The manpages state: >> >> SIGNALS: >> init reacts to several signals: >> >> SIGWINCH: the kernel sinds this singal when the KeyboardSignal key >> is hit. It activates the kbrequest action. >> >> If I send SIGWINCH to init, the kbrequest-thingy gets run. How do I get >> the kernel to send the signal when I press a key? > >Change init to call > > ioctl(tty_device, KDSIGACCEPT, SIGWINCH);
It already does.
>Of course you need to make sure that spawn_console in mapped in your current >keymap.
Yes, see inittab(5). It's all in there.
Providing you have a distribution with a recent sysvinit, or installed it yourself.
Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.
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