Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:45:17 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: GGI and cli/sti in X |
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On Mar 29, George wrote:
> Pardon my (extreme) ignorance of XFree86 internals and such but could a > SIGSEGV signal handler be used? You know, "Hey, I received a SIGSEGV, I > better restore the text screen and quit." (With, of course, setting a flag > so that it doesn't try to restore the screen if it receives another SIGSEGV > while restoring the screen.)
exactly what happens already for _many_ years ;-)
> Then if you do a 'kill -9' on the X server from an xterm, it's your own > fault.
yep, what I was saying too.
but Kristian Koehntopp and Alan Cox mentioned, that the kernel might issue that nasty `kill -9' too when running out of memory just when the X server needs some more memory. so it can't be completely avoided right now (maybe in the future? see other thread...) but it's much less likely than talking about users doing `kill -9 ...'
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