From owner-freebsd-commit Thu Apr 13 00:21:59 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA05564 for commit-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 00:21:59 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA05550 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 00:21:57 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA05543 ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 00:21:31 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01523; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:21:13 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA15925; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:20:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA12638; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:18:43 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504130718.JAA12638@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa sio.c Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:18:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504122331.QAA10789@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 12, 95 04:31:03 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 786 Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)