From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 15:18:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F7837B400; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 640585347; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:18:05 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Greg Black Cc: Doug Barton , Murray Stokely , bmah@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Preparing innocent users for -current References: <20020308110442.G32653-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Mar 2002 00:18:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > | Ages-old, very difficult to fix. Just don't use xconsole. > You left out the final sentence with the suggested alternative. There is no suggested alternative. The problem is well-known and has been around for a long time, and there is simply no easy way to fix it. Your options are: 1) use xconsole, deal with the panics. 2) don't use xconsole, avoid the panics. 3) fix it yourself. For further details, consult _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, under "Don't do that, then!" (p. 157 in the 3rd ed.) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message