On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:03:04PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:

 > 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.

If the system is in a state where you need to hit the BRS, what makes
you think that the (software) console abort is going to do anything
useful?

Console abort is only useful if it's provided by the firmware on the
system (i.e. Abort Switch on the AlphaServers, which traps into the
firmware).  If you have to rely on the (wedged) operating system to
provide the abort functionality, well ... that's not useful at all.

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

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