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From: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>
Subject: Re: Shutdown questions / correct way of sending sysrq
 to Linux domains?
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:12:27 +0000
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To: Matthew Bloch <matthew@bytemark.co.uk>
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Matthew Bloch wrote:

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> subtypes 33-127 to mean "call the sysrq handler"?  If so the only 
> question is how to glue it into the user-space tools: "xm sysrq S" ?  or 
> the counter-intuitive "xm shutdown --sysrq S"?  If the developers can 
> state their preference I'll make a proper job of it.

Besides shutdown functions sysrq may be good for other situations: 
remounting ro, sync the filesystems now, dump task state to console, 
etc. IMHO, having the "xm sysrq X" option would be usefull! :-)

Regards,
Nuno Silva


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