From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 07:42:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06551 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06546 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no (2602@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.131]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA28909; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:42:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:42:24 +0100 (MET) To: Mike Smith Cc: joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File I/O in kernel land (was: Re: 2nd warning: 2.2.6 BETA begins in 10 days!) References: <199801271524.BAA00529@word.smith.net.au> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 27 Jan 1998 16:42:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:54:17 +1030" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith writes: > > > 1 not set the flag (that's probably a bad idea, as it's what tells > > > syscons not to futz with anything) > > Exactly what dire consequences can this have? > Look for everything else that tests for it. Anything that does so, and > isn't guarded against the screensaver being active, is a candidate for > problems. It's possible that there aren't any; I just threw a quick > eye over stuff. There seems to be quite a bit. I'll try to find an alternate solution. > I would be most worried about console switches; you want to make sure > that you get out of the screensaver before the switch happens. For instance, the splashkit completely bombs the machine if it is still on when X starts (I have xdm in rc.local)... -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"