From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 19 17: 9:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA369155FC for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA05894; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:38:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:38:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Leif Neland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sv: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console) Message-ID: <19990920093858.S55065@freebie.lemis.com> 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> <007b01bf02fb$f6fa2a20$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <007b01bf02fb$f6fa2a20$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>; from Leif Neland on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:06:18AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 20 September 1999 at 2:06:18 +0200, Leif Neland wrote: >>> 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. >> >> 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. > > This is sufficently difficult to hit accidentially. My keyboard > doesn't have a F13 :-) Good choice, eh? But maybe we should do something else, then. It's up to the keyboard map to decide, anyway. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message