SAK gives kernel panic

[Steve Flynn]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Not by the majority of us who don't have a SAK key :-)  Do you have a
> clue what that would be on a PC-104 US keyboard?


SAK only exists if you set it up - it's the Secure Attention Key, used
to kill any program attached to /dev/console.

See http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/SAK.txt or the kernel source.

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Steve
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