On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:29:13PM +0000, 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.
That in itself can be a DoS (I've seen it reported as such), and one that the X server can't trap for. David -- David Dawes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tungsten Graphics, Inc http://www.tungstengraphics.com Founder/President, Release Engineer Phone: +1 570 764 0288 The XFree86 Project, Inc http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
