Re: kill -9 <pid of X>
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:52:05 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980812151305.11627B-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>,
> "Jon M
> . Taylor" writes:
> +-----
> | On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> | > In message <m0z6d1t-000aNFC@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
> | > | an argument against any specific setup btw - no doubt kernel code would
> | > | have some upset potential too)
> | > "Some"? Is wedging the console less preferable than wedging thwe entire
> | > system? I know where I can get NT4 in that case :-)
> | Suppose the sounds driver locks up and wedges your system that
> | way. Better put in in usersapce too. After all, you aare a lot better
> +--->8
>
> The sound driver doesn't map and copy big chunks of memory around. More to
> the point, compare the number of crashes from Alan's sound driver work to
> those during fbcon development. Likewise, NT stability (granted, always an
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which crashes have _you_ seen during fbcon development? I just checked the
Linux/m68k registration database, and either you didn't register, or you
weren't there when fbcon was developed (1994/1995).
I guess you're talking about the optimizations that happened lately to get
better performance out of vgacon after the abstract console merge? That's
something completely different.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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