Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:04:00 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.1.71] BSD revoke() syscall |
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Hi!
> Out of interest, what are these? > > User A dials up to a linux machine, runs a program which opens /dev/tty > and hangs around in the background. User A logs out, and User A's > program catches signals so it doesn't exit. User B logs in, and starts > to do work. User A's program can still execute a few limited tty > ioctl's, including ones which can reconfigure termios settings, such > as
Why? Why allow program playing with someone else-s configuration? Is it needed for something?
> the baud rate, line echoeing, etc. Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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