Re: tilde key

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ken Tyler wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 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 ?

Every few months someone asks this, then I reply with Andries' message, and
nothing happens :-)

BTW, I don't have his mail here, but using Google I found this:

    http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9804.0/0764.html

It looks like you can deallocate the keymaps using keycode 0.

> > 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 .... ;)

Indeed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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