linux-kernel - Re: SIGQUIT from tty layer

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Message-ID: <20090709171816.GA6046@ben-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:18:16 -0400
From:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xorg@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: SIGQUIT from tty layer

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> SIGQUIT is sent to the X server if the controling tty of the X server
> (probably its VT) receives the QUIT character (usually control-\, i.e.
> 0x1c)

This, however, would imply that something is sending the character and
this something is certainly not me. Where else might this character come
from? How might I trace who's writing to the tty?

- Ben

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