Re: Terminal Emulation program for Linux
Herbert Rosmanith (herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:00:54 +0100 (MET)
>
> OTOH, it _would_ be nice to have a permanent record of fatal kernel panics;
> copying a bunch of hexadecimal numbers on a piece of paper to determine
> what happened without miscopying any is slow and tedious. (OTOOH :-),
> when the kernel has panicked fatally I/O may not be such a good idea.)
>
why not print it to the parallel port - but without using lpr !
shut down everything, accept no interrupts or whatever ... just
print it from a locked routine.