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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: ctrl-alt-del, swapon, and buildworld questions
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <1993Jul28.170441.22489@alw.nih.gov>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 09:45:21 GMT
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In <1993Jul28.170441.22489@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes:
>To summarize: ctrl-alt-DEL is meaningless to any but DOS; "status: 0"
>messages may come from somewhere in the printer area; and buildworld.sh
>will fail owing to a bug in nroff.
In fact (at least with codrv) ctrl-alt-del does reset the
machine:
The following lines are from co_kbd.c:
case KBD_RESETKEY:
if (resetcnt==1)
cpu_reset();
else {
vty_broadcast("WARNING: RESETWITHOUT SYNC. TO E
XECUTE PRESS ctrl-alt-del AGAIN\n");
resetcnt=1;
}
return;
Believe me - ctrl-alt-del does reset the machine (I can't speak
for pccons). Solutions - modify your console driver.
Geoff.
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