> There could be a few user programs that would be effected by this > change. > See: <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=ioctl%5C%28.*TIOCSTI> > notable programs are: agetty, csh, xemacs and tcsh > > However, I still believe that this change is worth it given that the > Kconfig defaults to n. This will be a feature that is turned on for the > same reason that people activate it when using grsecurity. Users of this > opt-in feature will realize that they are choosing security over some OS > features Only in this case they are not. If I am at the point I have the ability to send you TIOCSTI you already lost because I can just open /dev/tty to get access to my controlling tty and use write(). Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
