On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:10:39PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 2) unionfs should not cause problems that will hang the kernel such that
> the programmer switch doesn't work. unionfs should not mess w/ interrupts.
> You can deadlock processes, and if you start the race for root, you can
> wedge the whole userland, but the programmer switch (which reacts to
> interrupts as I understand it) should still get you to ddb.

Does the programmer's switch actually work on a G4? The only way I've
been to break into ddb on my G4 is the Ctrl-Alt-Esc keyboard combo.
For me, the programmer's switch doesn't do anything even when the
Mac's not hung.
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