Bug#184624: reboots unexpectedly after panic

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:43:06AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > I already have the "for (;;);" hack in my tree.  Perhaps I can even change 
> > GNU
> > Mach so this becomes the default behaviour and you can use an argument to 
> > switch
> > to the old behavior.
> > 
> > Does someone think such patch would be useful?
> 
> I do (although I prefer while(1) ;)

I prefer getchar() (at least this was the hack I used on OSKit-Mach,
in GNU Mach 1.3 the function probably has a different name) so it
still reboots when you press a key. We could show a "Press any key"
message too.

-- 
Jeroen Dekkers