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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?)
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