Re: Speaking of SysRQ...

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:28:19 +0100 (BST)


Hi Shawn.

>>> Imagine when your sister borrowed your console just to find out
>>> that when she leaned over the keyboard to adjust the screen
>>> settings, she hard rebooted the computer and with it her precious
>>> two days worth of work was lost.

>> Let me guess - somebody's been stupid with the key allocations to
>> invoke it - at least, they have if that can happen accidentally!!!

> How about qwerty? That way, when I fall asleep and my farhead
> mashes the keyboard...

...it doesn't stand the foggiest chance of accidentally pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Delete all at the same time, and I would hope the same is
also true of the "Magic SysRq" combination - my preference for such a
combination would be Alt-SysRq-<Specific-Letter-Key> for the same
reason, and certainly NOT the ScrlLock-SysRq that has been proposed by
at least one person - that's just asking for trouble...

Just my US $0.02 worth...

Best wishes from Riley.

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