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. 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 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
