-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 11:27:15 Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Christopher Stone wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> c-a-bs to me is an "ejection seat button" >> >>> => disabling it is not helpful >> ... >> > I was just thinking it would be cool if c-a-bs would send you to a >> > virtual console and open up a text confirmation dialog box. Dunno if >> > something like that is possible though. >> >> As I previously wrote, to me such proposals are in the same class as: >> "Do you really want to eject? Enter root password to eject, confirm >> ejection ... ejection will be started in 60 secs ..." >> >> It voids "c-a-bs" as a means of "emergency button". They are meant to >> prevent _further_ damage in situations of emergencies and aren't >> necessarily guaranteed to "not cause damage". > > Yes, I agree, completely. When something starts to eat all resources, you > can kill it (with whole X server if it's not the X server eating all). You > definitely have no time to switch to vt, log in and kill it... > > I think disabling c+a+bs is really wrong decision :( > >> ... > And if those resources are open files? You don't know until it's already happened afaik. I think zapping should be enabled, but a more obscure key combination may be necessary to prevent accidental triggers. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknSU3UACgkQiPi+MRHG3qRIcgCfcrOEqDLrto20MCWO5ig8YRG5 LS0AoIHYF0dUUHDVdMrkbj/fqhUVejM7 =xvrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
