It *IS* the proper way to kill a tty.
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Nathan Hand wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, David Meyer wrote:
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> > Am I the first one to aim for "k" and accidently hit "l" ? eh? I just
> > wanted to saK my current TTY, not destroy my system!!! Perhaps sysrq.c
> > could be made to confirm actions? Or better yet, it could be coded to
> > become more like the Windows NT Ctrl-Alt-Del screen. (Where you could
> > have a nice menu, and select stuff from and list and perhaps instead of
> > just killing all or all but init, you could pick a program/pid to kill.)
> >
> > I would volunteer to do it myself, but as I am still becoming familiar
> > with the Linux kernel code, it would take me a while :(.
>
> While you're at it, why not add voice recognition so you can
> say "My Voice Is My Password" into the soundblaster mike for
> authentication?
>
> SAK isn't supposed to be a neat toy. It's for developers. If
> you aren't going to be careful with it, don't enable it. The
> need for bloat is totally unwarranted.
>
> You definitely shouldn't be using SAK to terminate TTYs. The
> system has perfectly adequate existing methods to kill a TTY
> and SAK isn't the correct way of doing it.
>
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