From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 9 12:18:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.211.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D98F153FE; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA97607; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:18:25 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:18:25 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? I guess the next question is would this even work once the hang happened, of course... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message