Re:Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
by notriddle on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:30PM
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That's what Ctrl-Alt-Del is for.
They aren't exactly the same thing, I suppose, but there's enough functional overlap that if you already have one, it's hard to justify adding another. You don't want too many of these "escape sequences", because every kernel-side keyboard interrupt becomes a thing that:
* Userland doesn't get to use that keyboard shortcut any more.
* Someone might accidentally trigger, and if they don't know what's going on, they become stuck.
* It's another thing that anyone building a captive kiosk has to know how to disable.
They aren't exactly the same thing, I suppose, but there's enough functional overlap that if you already have one, it's hard to justify adding another. You don't want too many of these "escape sequences", because every kernel-side keyboard interrupt becomes a thing that:
* Userland doesn't get to use that keyboard shortcut any more.
* Someone might accidentally trigger, and if they don't know what's going on, they become stuck.
* It's another thing that anyone building a captive kiosk has to know how to disable.