[13243] in bugtraq
Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Nordstrom)
Wed Jan 5 14:20:34 2000
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:49:51 +0100
Reply-To: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@HEM.PASSAGEN.SE>
From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@HEM.PASSAGEN.SE>
X-To: "Mark A. Heilpern" <heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Mark A. Heilpern wrote:
> Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot
> send signals to a process you don't own unless you are root.
You can if you control the pty where the program is running. Then
simulate susp characters (usually ^Z) to generate SIGTSTP, break (^C) to
generate SIGINT or quit (^\) to generate SIGQUIT.
--
Henrik Nordstrom
