[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ask-password: mention magic key to start over

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 16.03.11 13:24, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at medozas.de) wrote:

> On Wednesday 2011-03-16 04:43, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >
> >Well, all these keycodes are actually handled by the kernel and in the
> >terminal layer as part of ICANON (^U is VKILL to be precise). See
> >tcsetattr(3) for more information.
> >
> >I'd argue that tools which redefine ^U and ^H and ^C to unrelated
> >operations have made very poor choices
> 
> What about handling the other tty keys in systemd, like ^W?

Yes ^W probably makes sense to support. The only reason we are currently
not supporting it is laziness on my side, but I'd be happy to merge a
patch!

Lennart

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