[4548] in bugtraq
Re: Fun with devices II /dev/psaux on linux 2.0.30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Guptill)
Thu May 22 14:16:24 1997
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:06:59 -0400
Reply-To: Tom Guptill <tgpt@PAS.ROCHESTER.EDU>
From: Tom Guptill <tgpt@PAS.ROCHESTER.EDU>
X-To: Therapy? <therapy@GUARDIAN.HTU.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970521201131.1694A-100000@guardian.htu.tuwien.ac.at>
If I'm not mistaken, this bug will only affect machines that actually
*use* a PS2 keyboard.
At this point it might be safe to say:
"Sending random data to hardware devices causes problems"
rather than attempting to enumerate every device which reacts poorly to
unexpected things being catted to it.
- Tom
--
Tom Guptill Department of Physics and Astronomy
UNIX SA University of Rochester Rochester, NY USA
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Therapy? wrote:
> hi!
>
> just do:
>
> cat /bin/bash > /dev/psaux
> [CTRL-C]
>
> on a linux with a psaux device. keyboard will crash...
> /dev/psaux is installed 666 on slackware 3.2.
>
> bye,
> therapy
>
