Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:27:02 +0300 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] sysrq-j: emergency shell |
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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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