Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:35:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>Hello guys, > >Yes, it *is* very much a kernel issue. What happens if you kill -9 the X
It' s not a kernel issue. If the X server run in iopl() and own the video card, _it_ must care that everything will return OK when it' s killed.
It' s possible using a X wrapper that run as root (not as user) and wait for the child to die (once the X child is died the wrapper can restore the text console fine).
>server? The machine hangs because the kernel does not sanify the
The machine doesn' t hang.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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