Re: tilde key

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Hello,

> It's the key with keycode 0, right? On most architectures keycode 0 is ignored,
> we had an #ifdef to enable it. Perhaps someone reverted the code
> (drivers/char/vt.c, I think).

Think it is 0 from memeory.

> Note that according to Andries Brouwer there exists a security problem if you

Oh great!

Is the exact nature of the security problem posted anywhere ?

> allow keycode 0, so alternatively you can remap it to an unused keycode number
> in the Amiga keyboard driver. The disadvantage of that solution is that all
> keymaps in all distros have to be modified as well.

Sounds awful .... ;) 

Ken.