Hi!
> Here's something that myself and others at Cobalt Networks have found
> useful.
> It extends sysrq to support a way to manually kill a process. In debugging
> situations, we have found times where the system gets wedged, and we'ld like
> to avoid a reboot. Show tasks provides the pid information.
>
> 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.
>
> Feedback welcome, please cc: me directly.
Looks good to me; (maybe you could reuse from 'kIll' as killing of all
processes is hardly ever usefull).
Pavel
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