Hi!
> > Nice things about VSTa ukernel was that things were simple. Do you
> > want to change your keymap? Just recompile keyboard driver, then
> > killall keyboard; ./ikeyboard &
> > ... and keymap is changed. Did your vfat driver crash? Never minds,
> > you just loosed some of your fs's. Just reload the vfat driver.
>
> And, of course, that would work, because the vfat driver (being perfectly
> written) doesn't trash the disks in question when it crashes, right?
So what. You do reboot, fsck, and mount vfat. I do fsck and mount
vfat. That's a lot faster.
> Interesting example - except I've never seen X fail without taking the
> machine with it anyway. In theory, if X fails, I should be able to kill it
> off and access another VT to restart it; in practice, I can't do anything,
> since X also controls the keyboard and mouse. Perhaps I could telnet in
> and try to kill it, then try to find some way of resetting the keyboard
> and mouse remotely over telnet - but rebooting is a lot easier...
You lost mouse and keyboard. That's very different from loosing
machine. At least you can schedule your downtime that way!
Pavel
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