[haiku-development] Re: Emergency keyboard shortcut handler

>
> Hi,
>
> the attached patch series adds a emergency keyboard shortcut very
> much like
>  the
> magic SysReq key under Linux. If you press Shift+F12+<char> then a
> number of
> different operations can be executed:

Hmm most can be done from KDL but I suppose some ppl might find it
faster.

Actually BeOS used SysReq also (Ctrl-AltGr-PrtScrn), even before Linux
tried it.
Is there a reason now we don't support the BeOS shortcut ?

> Shift+F12+s -> Sync disks
>          +b -> reBoot
>          +o -> Off (shutdown)
>          +t -> dump Threads
>          +l -> dump Locks
>          +f -> print stack Frames from all CPU's

Since it mimics Linux, why not use the same keys for same ops ?

François.

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