In article <736282510.4391.0@unix3.andrew.cmu.edu> Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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>       I wonder if there is any demand for this. There should be. ;) For 

It is already in! The implementation (in tty_io.c, if I recall it
right) is brute force: All processes that have any connection to the tty
the signal is sent to are killed (signal 9).

I've long worked with a small patch that binds this feature to
Ctrl-Alt-Del, as I dislike the idea of rebooting at a keystroke anyway
and C-A-D is the 'traditional' emergency key on PCs (it works great
for memory hogs on Linux...)

Disadvantage: this can't be used on a serial tty. But surely there is
a way for binding any key sequence to it.

Olaf

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