Warning: evdev changes - no auto-grabs anymore

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Aug 14 08:35:02 PDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:30:10PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
>>> ctrl-C until the server restarts), and that's probably how the ctrl-C
>>> results in a SIGTERM to the X server.
>>
>> Yep.  Obvious and not even remotely tested patch:
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~daniels/no-more-sigterm.diff
> Maybe I didn't understand the whole problem, but grabbing only
> keyboards makes more sense to me.
>
> You're unlikely to want passwords etc replicated somewhere. At least I am.

daniels at psyence:~% ls -lh /dev/input
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     100 2008-08-14 15:21 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  64 2008-08-14 13:11 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  65 2008-08-14 13:11 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  66 2008-08-14 13:11 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  67 2008-08-14 13:11 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  68 2008-08-14 13:11 event4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  69 2008-08-14 13:11 event5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  70 2008-08-14 13:11 event6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  63 2008-08-14 13:11 mice
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  32 2008-08-14 13:11 mouse0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 223 2008-08-14 13:11 uinput

If someone's got root, you've already lost.

Cheers,
Daniel
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