On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > When built into the Kernel, by only pressing the
> > > PrintScreen/SysRq the current application is terminated (tested
> > > on a console and GNU screen). Is this just me or I should
> > > expect it?
Well this should happen even when sysrq is NOT compiled into the kernel...
> > Probably bug. Happens for me, too, and it is pretty nasty.
Not a bug - just an easy-to-disable "feature" - read on ;)
> Just played with this bug. It doesn't kill a login shell but does any
> app running on it. I just went looking for where "Quit" is printed
> out. When I press SysRq Quit is printed on the command line. Any ideas?
Well that "print-screen" key is usually bound to ^\ :
% dumpkeys | grep 'e 99'
keycode 99 = Control_backslash
control alt keycode 99 = Meta_Control_backslash
Now by default ^\ is bound to sigquit - and should be as quite a few
programs depend on that...
% dumpkeys | grep [^_]Control_backslash
keycode 5 = four degree dollar
Control_backslash Control_backslash
altgr control keycode 12 = Control_backslash
control keycode 43 = Control_backslash
keycode 99 = Control_backslash
Looks like there're quite a few ways to generate ^\ - so disabling one of
them won't hurt:
% echo 'keycode 99 = VoidSymbol' | loadkeys
(Note that this leaves all the "modified" versions of sysrq to do whatever
they were already doing - so shift-printscreen will still generate ^\)
In any case putting that somewhere in your bootup scripts should solve it ;)
(or even users' login scripts as Linux allows anyone to screw up the
keyboard mappings - why?!)
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