From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: swsusp-devel <swsusp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:38:21 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058038701.2482.25.camel@laptop-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712153719.GA206@elf.ucw.cz>
Hi.
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 03:37, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > - nice display
> > > > - user can abort at any time during suspend (oh, I forgot, I wanted
> > > > to...) by just pressing Escape
> > >
> > > That seems like missfeature. We don't want joe random user that is at
> > > the console to prevent suspend by just pressing Escape. Maybe magic
> > > key to do that would be acceptable...
> >
> > Magic key? Do you mean a password? I suppose that could be a
>
> Documentation/sysrq.txt. Magic sysrq driver will answer some
> interesting questions like "how to press esc on the serial line", etc,
> and it is also /proc configurable.
Oh so you just be having (eg) to press SysRq-Escape? Isn't that just
security by obscurity? I'd rather go for the password idea. Sounds like
there should be a few options for what is required to abort with one
chosen at make config time.
1.0 tomorrow unless there's anything big in the meantime.
Nigel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-12 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-11 22:45 Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 14:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 14:55 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 15:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 19:38 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2003-07-12 20:15 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 20:22 ` [Swsusp-devel] " Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 22:52 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 2:17 ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-12 20:20 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-12 22:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 13:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 19:23 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 19:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 18:17 ` [Swsusp-devel] " Michael Frank
2003-07-13 19:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-12 22:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-07-12 22:51 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 13:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 19:31 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 21:01 ` [Swsusp-devel] " Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-13 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-13 21:21 ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-14 1:54 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 3:41 ` Michael Frank
2003-07-14 13:11 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 17:30 ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-14 18:44 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-14 20:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 20:30 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 21:20 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:41 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <20030714230219.GB11283@elf.ucw.cz>
2003-07-15 6:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-15 10:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 11:11 ` Markus Gaugusch
2003-07-15 11:31 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307132305500.1090@phoenix.kerstin.at>
2003-07-14 1:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 1:26 ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14 1:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 1:55 ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14 1:57 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 2:17 ` Lyle Seaman
2003-07-14 20:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-14 20:21 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 20:32 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-07-14 20:38 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 16:23 ` Kent Borg
2003-07-15 16:27 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-15 17:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-15 19:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
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