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SubjectRe: kill -9 <pid of X>
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In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980812074127.18031B-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>, 
"Jon M
. Taylor" writes:
+-----
| I stand by my claim. If userspace cannot, by its nature, properly
| guarantee the atomicity of those critical sections, video card programming
| cannot be done properly in userspace. Thus, it *is* the kernel's job.
+--->8

If the X server crashes in critical code and that code is in user space, you
lose the console.

If the X server crashes in critical code and that code is in kernel space,
you can crash the entire system.

This is an improvement?

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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)



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