Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:40:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: prevent SAK to kill init process |
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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.
Eric
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