Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:57:31 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux's "magic" sysrq Message-ID: <op.wr82t5mu34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> In-Reply-To: <51159C4E.7070309@gmail.com> References: <51159C4E.7070309@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:46:06 -0600, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote: > I was reading the comments on a slashdot article about moving kernel > console to userland. One thing that came up with Linux's sysrq support, > documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key to see the > abilities. I'd never heard of this, and I doubt FreeBSD has anything > similar, but have I just never heard of it? > It's one of the few things I actually miss from Linux. Server hose? Alt+SysRq+RSEIUB (raising skinny elephants is utterly beautiful) and you have killed all processes, synced data to disk, unmounted drives, and rebooted the server. They're going to lose a lot more than the Magic SysRq if they move to userland...
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