BSD tty security, part 3: How to Fix It

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Wed May 22 07:58:59 AEST 1991


In article <16215 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> Why an SAK like ^K?  Why not just have loss
> of DTR be the attention signal?

That's fine with me. All I care about is that there does exist some SAK
which cannot be turned off or diverted by any user process. I picked ^K
for an example because John doesn't think Break is portable enough.
(Note that in the pictures getty shields the line from speed changes;
this isn't necessary for an out-of-band sequence.)

---Dan



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