Re: Sysrq enhancement: process kill facility

From: Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 13:19:25 EST


> You enter <alt>-<sysrq>-n ("nuke"), and then prompts for the pid. It supports
> backspace and control-U. On serial ports, it retains the same semantics:
> a break activates this as a sysrq sequence, but if more than 5-seconds pass
> without any input, it drops out of processing input as a sysrq.

I am afraid we'll have bash and perl in kernel before too long,
if this avenue is to be pursued.

Why don't you use something like SGI kdb for debugging kernels?

-- Pete
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