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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r269474 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/vt
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:15:16 -0400
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On Monday, August 04, 2014 8:03:58 pm Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 3, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Log:
> >>  Allow to disable some special key combinations handled by vt(4), like debug
> >>  request, reboot request.
> >>
> >>  Requested by:	Claude Buisson
> >>
> >>  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
> >
> > I realize the API uses 'SPCL' as an abbreviation, but for user-facing things like a sysctl and tunable, I think it might be better to spell it out as 
"specialkeys" instead?
> 
> It is a bad name, and also gratuitously different from syscons where the
> names are:
> 
>      hw.syscons.kbd_reboot
>      hw.syscons.kbd_debug
>      hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch

I would prefer individual nodes for vt along these lines as I think it is
clearer to the user ("what exactly constitutes a special key?")

-- 
John Baldwin