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From: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:14:45 +0000
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On 20/03/10 01:47, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-03-17 15:43, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>    
>> It seems useful to me, I'm mainly wondering whether there's a chance
>> that we'll get kdboe support in the forseeable future, which would
>> make this pretty much obsolete I guess.
>>      
> Well once there's kdboe, we can reevaluate and delete it again.
> Which brings me to the point: is kdboe even secured?
>    


And does it have the useful low-overhead that xt_SYSRQ has which means 
it works even when the rest of the system is in deep trouble?

(I can't find kbdoe, google has let me down.)

jch