Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:04:29 -0400 (EDT)

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>
> Either use XF86_FBDev, do a massive recoding of both XFree86 and
> the kernel, or live with the possibility of crashes. There aren't any
> other choices.
>

Massive re-coding? Sounds like X just has to be protected from signal 9
just like init. That means you just need something to make X unique
to the kernel's signal "generator". Remember, you did not kill X, you
told the kernel to do it --- and it did.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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