From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 16 19:26:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA17943 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:26:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA17931 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA07336; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:52:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702170322.NAA07336@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) In-Reply-To: from John-Mark Gurney at "Feb 16, 97 05:23:55 pm" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:52:21 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying: > > this may sound like a stupid question.. but can you check the > keyboard between probes to see if there are any keypresses.... I remeber We've already been over all this; I've proposed a between-probes hook, but I don't think that anyone would be particularly keen on it as a concept. It would be just as easy for the console output code to check whenever it's printing output, which happens between/during probes; perhaps on every newline. Soren? > John-Mark -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[