On 7 Jul 2005, at 16:41, Sunil wrote:

why would anybody remove such a useful thing? how do we debug X hangs for example?

There's been some debate in the past about whether it's a potential security risk or not (since it's quite easy to leave yourself logged in as root on a VT and forget about it, for example-- and of course it's not then protected by your screensaver/lock if you wander away). Although I think the consensus then was that at it should at least be available, and just turned off by default.

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