Re: ENH: SysRq Screen-capture?

Nat Lanza (magus@cs.cmu.edu)
17 Nov 1999 16:55:03 -0500


Steve Sparks <sparks@socketware.com> writes:

> Is it possible to put a screen-capture command in the SysRq stuff? when the
> kernel panics, it'd be nice to capture the screen it died on without having
> to spend ten minutes with pencil+paper...

If the kernel's that dead, do you really trust it to take a
screencapture and write out a file without trashing your filesystem?

--nat

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