From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 19 17: 6:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBE51524F for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA02041; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:06:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <007b01bf02fb$f6fa2a20$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: References: <73296.937561536@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19990919113105.X55065@freebie.lemis.com> <199909190929.SAA02517@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <19990920091334.Q55065@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Sv: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:06:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > That was exactly the suggestion the original poster made in his PR. > > He also believed that assiging the PANIC function to a key > > is no worse than having the DDB function key. >=20 > I think that's a valid statement. Sure, you can return from ddb, > whereas you can't from panic, but any abuse would be more likely to be > accidental. I'd hope we could think of a *very* difficult key > combination to press accidentally. I'd expect at least all of > ctrl-alt-shift and some unusual character such as F13. >=20 This is sufficently difficult to hit accidentially. My keyboard doesn't = have a F13 :-) Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message