From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 9 22:41:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blockhead.mincom.com (blockhead1.mincom.com [203.55.175.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7961C14BE4; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by blockhead.mincom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA69591; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:41:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: from porthole.mincom.oz.au(172.17.100.2) via SMTP by blockhead.mincom.oz.au, id smtpdd69588; Thu Jun 10 15:41:24 1999 Received: (from philh@localhost) by porthole.mincom.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA29619; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:41:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:41:24 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Message-ID: <19990610154124.F22693@mincom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 04:18:25PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Hermit Hacker wrote: > How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as > suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to > the debugger? Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine is, uh, less than desirable behaviour. :-) (Perhaps this thread should go to -hackers?) -- Phil Homewood DNRC email: philh@mincom.com Postmaster and BOFH Mincom Pty Ltd phone: +61-7-3303-3524 Brisbane, QLD Australia fax: +61-7-3303-3269 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message