> 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.
Or the system.
> If the X server crashes in critical code and that code is in kernel space,
> you can crash the entire system.
Or not. The whole X server is not in the kernel, only the video
driver. Less code to crash by itself, less code to crash other code
through buffer overflows or whatever. That fact by itself kills your
argument.
> This is an improvement?
*I* like it. *I* think it is an improvement. Other people can do
what they want.
Jon
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