>
> Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ?
>
Yup... Pretty dumb, isn't it?
mike
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Don Read wrote:
>
> Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ?
>
>
Suns do this. They sense the terminal power off as a break. One
previous ork place had a bunch of rack mounted suns, sharing a
serial console via a switch box. There was a
On 10-Jun-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
>> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b
>> > > (as
>> >
>> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
>> > have here have serial consoles attached to
> Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
> have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which
> do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process
> leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine
> is, uh, less than desi
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote:
> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as
> >
> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
> > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which
> > do a very good simulation of
Mike Nowlin wrote:
> Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a "cd ~bob" would be
> fun. :) You would pretty much have to implement some timing
> requirements, but I imagine that it could bulk up that section of the
> kernel pretty easily.
Yep. I started to hack something like this int
> > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as
>
> Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
> have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which
> do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process
> leaves them.
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate
> key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as
> suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to
> the debugger?
Would be most excellent if
How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate
key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as
suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to
the debugger?
I guess the next question is would this even work once the
