lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-Id: <200710232333.08306.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:33:08 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca> Cc: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@...allh.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>, linux-input <linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab. On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there > > are other applications also seeing the same keypresses, it just does > > not want keypresses stolen from it. > > Right. This is exactly the problem. The current grab API exists to > prevent keys from being delivered to normal users, but rfkill still > wants to see them. > > No matter how you slice it, if both of these desires are to be satisfied > then there needs to be some sort of a system to differentiate between > rfkill and "normal users". That's what the priority is here. > And the solution is pretty simple - do not use grab. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists