From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 07:50:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08157 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (router1.portal.net.au [202.12.71.250] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08113 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA00704; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:13:06 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801271543.CAA00704@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) cc: Mike Smith , 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!) In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Jan 1998 16:42:23 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:13:06 +1030 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA08115 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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)... Yup. I'm still not happy with the switching model. But I've finally given in and decided that the splash has to be in a "magic" format, so there will be an "installsplash" command that splats a magic number and some other stuff on a splash image and installs it. *sigh* Now I can get back to making it switch properly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\