Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Sun Mar 23 2008 at 19:17:15 +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > > Sweet. Shall we ship that by default? :)
> > 
> > Some people might want to see what the last thing that was going on on
> > their X display before panic was.
> > 
> > I do however think that this and similar useful snippets should
> > be documented somewhere. (Perhaps as commented out in lines
> > in sysctl.conf?)
> 
> Would it be possible to have a simple keypress alias for this?  So that X
> would freeze, but if you press e.g. ctrl-esc, you get ddb?  The rationale
> is that a simple keypress is harder to mess up when driving with your
> eyes closed.
> 
> Dunno what's a better default, though.  Maybe one billion bluescreens
> can't be wrong?

I just realized that the default is a manifest place for bikesheds and
I'll now try to have one with myself:

At least once I've written some important data down from the X display
while the kernel core was dumped.  Thank god the system had a lot of
memory ...

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