Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:37:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl -A Message-ID: <19970427193716.BD06623@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970427103036.384A-100000@lend.tu-graz.ac.at>; from Martin Kammerhofer on Apr 27, 1997 10:42:19 %2B0200 References: <199704270447.VAA27744@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970427103036.384A-100000@lend.tu-graz.ac.at>
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As Martin Kammerhofer wrote: > The drawbacks are: > 1. You have to go single user to restart your X server if it > should die (fortunately this never happened to me :). You should also use `NoZap' in XF86Config then. I never do, and i often log out using the `Zap' sequence. :-) > NetBSD is said to have a cleaner solution, they're using a special device > for X's memory access. The aperture driver is not exactly cleaner. It's just another security hole, you can at least find enough races while somebody `zaps' the Xserver to drive a truck through. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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