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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposed change of kdb key on serial console 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:53:51 +0800."
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:53:51 +0800, 
"Zhang, Sonic" <sonic.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
>	I think it will cost too many keys to trap into KDB from a serial
>console.
>
>	What do you think about "ctrl-=" or "ctrl-\"?

That is deliberate, it should take more effort to get into the debugger
than just hitting a single character.  SGI have been using <escape>KDB
internally for several months and it has not caused any problems.