From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:18:27 +1100

Re: Problems with Linux_kbd & 2.2.0-pre9 (fwd)

Marcus writes:

>  Andrew Apted wrote:
>  > 
>  > Duh, I'll just stick my brain back in :) ...  Then it seems we're still
>  > stuck, if we can't get any keyboard input from the new console. I
>  > wonder why "open -s less /some/file" works then ??  Something funny is
>  > going on here...
>  
>  What is 'open'? A suid wrapper that runs a program on a new console?
>  Maybe open changes permissions on the new console?

Yeah, SUID.  I may have stuck my brain back in, but it took a little
while for it to start working again :->.

`open' is a little program that allows you run a program (or just a
shell) on a new console.  It is SUID-root here, and forks a new process
for the program, and it must also chown the ttys too.  I'm sure I looked
at the source when wrote the initial VT stuff in display-fbdev, but I
can't find it on my 'puter now otherwise I could have sent you a copy...

Cheers,
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