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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 21:19:56 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "S. Parker" <linux@sparker.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
        marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Sysrq enhancement: process kill facility
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Hi!

> Here's something that myself and others at Cobalt Networks have found 
> useful.
> It extends sysrq to support a way to manually kill a process.  In debugging
> situations, we have found times where the system gets wedged, and we'ld like
> to avoid a reboot.  Show tasks provides the pid information.
> 
> You enter <alt>-<sysrq>-n ("nuke"), and then prompts for the pid.  It 
> supports
> backspace and control-U.  On serial ports, it retains the same semantics:
> a break activates this as a sysrq sequence, but if more than 5-seconds pass
> without any input, it drops out of processing input as a sysrq.
> 
> Feedback welcome, please cc: me directly.

Looks good to me; (maybe you could reuse from 'kIll' as killing of all
processes is hardly ever usefull).
									Pavel
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