>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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