Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:18:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa sio.c Message-ID: <199504130718.JAA12638@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504122331.QAA10789@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 12, 95 04:31:03 pm
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > A magic sequence of chars would be a misfeature, as it would be for > > syscons. The escape should be out of bounds (perhaps it should optionally > > be break && some combination of the modem status lines). > > No, we want something you can send on a modem... Not really. Playing in DDB is likely to cause the machine hang, so you need to hit the big red button. Real-life machines do not have DDB. (It's also a security hole.) You could generate a break as well with a modem, btw. My original proposal did only enable this (mis)feature if COMCONSOLE has been defined (read this: FORCE_COMCONSOLE). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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