Re: Feature for sysrq.

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:42:12 +0200


> On the other hand, it might be useful to add a capability to the keyboard
> driver allowing arbitrary programs to be executed on press of given key
> combination. This might be simply accomplished by passing a message

This can already be done with the "ctrlaltdel" in inittab. The
keyboard driver sends a signal to init and init starts a process in
response. (It doesn't have to be reboot; most likely it shouldn't be
reboot :-) Assign the (misleadingly named) symbol "Boot" in the
keytable to the key you want.

olaf