Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:55:36 +0100 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: prevent SAK to kill init process |
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:40:41PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> writes: > > > hi, > > > > hitting "Secure Attention Key" on console that's openned > > by init process, causing panic due to an attempt to kill > > the init process. > > > > Fixing this by skipping the init process in the loop. > > This sounds like proper behavior. The goal of SAK is the guarantee that > no one else has the tty one, and this violates that goal. Which version > init opens a controlling tty? I expect it is time to deliver SIGCLUE > to it. I was using some older upstart version, which kept the console open
I found this log entry in changelog :)
* No longer holds /dev/console open, so the SAK SysRq key will not kill Upstart. (Bug: #486005)
So probably no need for the patch
sry for noise, jirka
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