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ttctciyfyesterday at 12:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

No, it's not. It has various functionality, as shown by the built-in help:

> Example output of the SysRq+h command:

> sysrq: HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) crash(c) terminate-all-tasks(e) memory-full-oom-kill(f) kill-all-tasks(i) thaw-filesystems(j) sak(k) show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(l) show-memory-usage(m) nice-all-RT-tasks(n) poweroff(o) show-registers(p) show-all-timers(q) unraw(r) sync(s) show-task-states(t) unmount(u) force-fb(v) show-blocked-tasks(w) dump-ftrace-buffer(z) dump-sched-ext(D) replay-kernel-logs(R) reset-sched-ext(S)

But note "sak (k)".


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IshKebabyesterday at 9:24 AM

That kills X! Hardly useful.

tmtvlyesterday at 1:34 AM

How's it go again, 'raising all elephants is utterly boring'?