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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] sysrq-j: emergency shell
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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