Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:34:56 -0300

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980811152838.1987A-100000@einstein.london.sco.com>
, T
igran Aivazian writes:
+-----
| Yes, it *is* very much a kernel issue. What happens if you kill -9 the X
| server? The machine hangs because the kernel does not sanify the
| console/VT, i.e. switch it back to the text mode of the VT whence the X
+--->8

That's not the kernel's job. I can addle a Solaris console the same way;
that doesn't make it the kernel's job to track what X did to the console and
reverse it. There might well be programs which depend on the kernel not
resetting the console just because the program running on it exited.

(Do you really mean "hang"? telnet should still work....)

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electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university			   (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)






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