Subject: Re: control-alt-delete?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/05/2001 12:03:04
In message <mtuwvca0zwr.fsf@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu>, Nathan J. Williams write
s:
><seebs@plethora.net> (Peter Seebach) writes:
>
>> Is there a reason that several of my current NetBSD systems seem to think
>> that control-alt-delete is just a weird key sequence?
>
>Well, that's what it is.
>
>Did you expect something else?

Yes.  I expected the console-abort-hook that is very useful to have
occasionally, when a system is in a state where I'd like to at least *hint*
that it sync disks before I hit the Big Red Button.

Console abort is *useful*.  It should be available by default, IMHO.

-s