From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 16:33:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04F537B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:33:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9251143FCB for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003020600334400200i618ke>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:33:44 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h160Wc5F019579; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h160WRWn019574; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) References: <20030205103556.B7212@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E4164CA.3B1E7C30@mindspring.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 05 Feb 2003 16:32:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3E4164CA.3B1E7C30@mindspring.com> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > The secondary reason for it is so that when you are running X, and > your kernel panics, the console gets properly dropped into the > debugger, instead of leaving you screwed. A while before I quit Linux two years ago, the kernel got a config option to enable a special key (SysReq?) that was supposed to let you send several different commands to the kernel even if some process like X tied up the keyboard. (I don't remember the details; maybe "kill process using the keyboard", "kill user process", etc.; and I don't recall whether it actually worked in the hanging X case.) It seemed like a very useful feature and I was wishing for it when I tried FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 and -CURRENT. (Usually, it's only X that messes up, not the kernel.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message