Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:00:52 -0300

In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980812074127.18031B-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>,
"Jon M
. Taylor" writes:
+-----
| I stand by my claim. If userspace cannot, by its nature, properly
| guarantee the atomicity of those critical sections, video card programming
| cannot be done properly in userspace. Thus, it *is* the kernel's job.
+--->8

If the X server crashes in critical code and that code is in user space, you
lose the console.

If the X server crashes in critical code and that code is in kernel space,
you can crash the entire system.

This is an improvement?

-- 
brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university			   (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)






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