Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:18:33 +0200

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> take it upon themselves to clean up some of the mess. Stuff like that
> doesn't get to absurd extremes in a truly open development system. In the
> cloistered ivory tower of XFree86 development, it just keeps going and
> going and going.... XFree86 4.0 will supposedly clean some of this mess

To be fair, the X code is rather old, has a history of maintenance by
suboptimal software engineering, and nobody of today's open software
developers really wants to deal with that. (Like at one point NCFTP was
rewritten from scratch because the old ugly BSD FTP code became
unmaintainable, and that's tiny compared to X.)

olaf

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