[BRLTTY] Cursor routing not longer working with kernel 6.3 on Debian testing
Christian Schoepplein
chris at schoeppi.net
Sun Jun 25 14:59:27 EDT 2023
Hi Samuel and all who replied to my request,
> Am 25.06.2023 um 18:12 schrieb Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>:
> Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 23 juin 2023 16:37:45 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Is this a known issue with kernel 6.3?
>
> Unfortunately, yes: TIOCSTI poses security problems so it got
> disabled by default. I had warned at that time that it was needed for
> accessibility and proposed solutions, but didn't hear back anything. Now
> that the regression is there and users complain, perhaps they'll
> listen...
Yes. I saw you opened a bug report, lets see what will happen. Thanks for opening the report!
For me it is OK to set
dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti=1
in /etc/sysctlconf as a workaround like Rob suggested, thanks Rob for this hint!
Ciao,
Schoepp
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