Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:38:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sv: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console) Message-ID: <19990920093858.S55065@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <007b01bf02fb$f6fa2a20$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>; from Leif Neland on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:06:18AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909161329200.26117-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> <73296.937561536@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19990919113105.X55065@freebie.lemis.com> <199909190929.SAA02517@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <19990920091334.Q55065@freebie.lemis.com> <007b01bf02fb$f6fa2a20$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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On Monday, 20 September 1999 at 2:06:18 +0200, Leif Neland wrote: >>> That was exactly the suggestion the original poster made in his PR. >>> He also believed that assiging the PANIC function to a key >>> is no worse than having the DDB function key. >> >> I think that's a valid statement. Sure, you can return from ddb, >> whereas you can't from panic, but any abuse would be more likely to be >> accidental. I'd hope we could think of a *very* difficult key >> combination to press accidentally. I'd expect at least all of >> ctrl-alt-shift and some unusual character such as F13. > > This is sufficently difficult to hit accidentially. My keyboard > doesn't have a F13 :-) Good choice, eh? But maybe we should do something else, then. It's up to the keyboard map to decide, anyway. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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