From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 27 22:23:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA22990 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA22983 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA01953 for hackers@hub.freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 07:23:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06273; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:37:16 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970427193716.BD06623@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <199704270447.VAA27744@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Martin Kammerhofer on Apr 27, 1997 10:42:19 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)