Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:00:52 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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?
-- 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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