Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:34:17 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New console keyboard mode OFF |
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Hi!
> The current console keyboard situation can be improved by introducing > an "OFF" mode. All available modes for the console keyboard (RAW, > MEDIUMRAW, XLATE, and UNICODE) buffer key events in the current vt's > tty input. As recent Xorg releases no longer read input from the vt > there are two problems: > > 1) The tty input buffer eventually overflows because nothing is > reading it, triggering an infinite flush_to_ldisc() kworker loop. > 2) If the vt's mode isn't changed to RAW or MEDIUMRAW, key events > remain translated by the kernel, causing shenanigans like pressing > Ctrl+C in Xterm would send SIGTERM to the X server.
Seems very sane. Of course it all depends what a patch looks like... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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