Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Ove Ewerlid (Ove.Ewerlid@syscon.uu.se)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:36:46 +0200


Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > The X server is a lot harder to debug than the kernel. Its large, it takes
> > ages to build and video hardware was mostly designed by people who evidently
> > then didnt have to program it.
>
> Here's even yet still more reasons why the X server is harder to
> debug video drivers in than the kernel:

The X server is hard to debug
and the Kernel is not simple to debug.

You want to combine two complex things!

What if the resources needed to handle the complexity scales
exponentially?

You indicate that you've done some work in kernel space with
graphics cards. What do you think about the combined complexity issue?

Obviously, money cannot handle the complexity, ask MS :-)

Ove

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