> > I really don't get it. You have not broken anything new. Only
> > not fixed all of the problems. Current code does not work for "non-tty0
> > terminals" as well right?
>
> No, it works fine.
Not really. You happen to be lucky. Anyway with no tty port the UML code
will soon cease to function completely so a solution of some sort is
needed.
> > I don't see Alan's comment at all. This is not a regression it was always
> > like that. Ever since Fedora was working on UML, But these fixes are real
> > live regression crashes.
> >
> > And I don't see the all "leaving other vendors systems insecure". It just
> > a freaking UML tty. You need to be root 5 times before you have access
> > to all these, and it's only the UML that's compromised not the "all system"
> > And surely the current plain tty0 crash is much less secure then this thing.
>
> The "TTY problem" is not UML specific.
That one is. The console driver handles stuff its own way and
differently. It's eventually got to tackle the same problem.
I still think we ought to be able to solve it cleanly. It's a case of
getting the tests right so that we allow for the misbehaviour util-linux
does.
As of itself util-linux behaviour doesn't appear to be something we can't
permit as the
open
vhangup
sequence means the file handle that is left from before the vhangup due
to util-linux misbehaving is a hung-up fd so cannot affect the tty.
UML is a good test case for fixing this properly because it's got almost
no users, and those it has are fairly technical 8)
Alan
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