Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, David Balazic wrote: > > > the console ( keyboard+mouse+screen ) of a linux system can be locked up > > by a non-root user with the "help" of an xfree86 server. > > > X 2>&1 | less > > > > A reboot "fixes" it. We want to reach windows level quality on desktop > > after all, don't we ? > > A less drastic fix is for the user (no root privilege required) > to kill -9 the X process.
Hard to do when the keyboard is locked. And there is no other terminal in the house. > I don't know enough about consoles and other "terminals" to comment > on a proper fix. > > DEM: > > There is nothing the kernel can do about what X is up to. The suid > > wrapper for X can check if stdout/stderr is a pipe and refuse to run > > if it is. > > Note that XFree86 v4 does not use a wrapper. > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
