Re: Sysrq enhancement: process kill facility

From: S. Parker (linux@sparker.net)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 14:06:44 EST


I certainly have no particular preference for what this is called.
Is there support for dropping the existing kIll and me re-submitting
these changes that way? (I've never imagined how kIll actually helped.)

Cheers,

         ~sparker

At 12:19 PM 2/9/2002 , Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
> >
> > 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
>--
>(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the
>U.S.
>no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

Cheers,

        ~sparker

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