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From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> > While we're talking about DDB, can't we have it timeout in 30s if you
> > don't hit a key (and then generate a core dump).
>
> Not really ... that would assume that the IRQ handlers were still
> operational, which may not be the case. DDB should only be running if
> all interrupts are disabled if I remember right (and if I don't, I
> won't mind being corrected :-) )

Can we sit in a loop, while polling the keyboard for input?


Sujal