Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:41:24 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Message-ID: <19990610154124.F22693@mincom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906091616260.49155-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 04:18:25PM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906091616260.49155-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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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-stable" in the body of the message
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