From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 3 00:27:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18237 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 00:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18205; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 00:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09720; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:27:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd009682; Tue Feb 3 01:27:01 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03197; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:26:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802030826.BAA03197@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: netscape/swap_pager causing problems with syscons To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:26:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, dmm125@bellatlantic.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802030220.VAA02831@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Feb 2, 98 09:20:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" > > Nope, it's not a "problem" with syscons - it's just what happens when > > an X server is rudely shot down and has no chance to clean up. And > > I'm sure that Terry will have some suggestion about how state changes > > should be pushed and restored in syscons but it's unlikely that this > > will every happen unless somebody actually figures out how to > > implement it and has the free time to do the work involved. Don't > > hold your breath though and allocate more swap space instead. ;-) > > This is another need for a transitive closure of the flow graph of > execution. :-). Heh. It's called putting DDX into the kernel. And it's already been implemented... for Linux. It's interesting how much discussion about architecture on these lists finds its way into Linux first... one wonders if FreeBSD people are being abused as the architects for Linux... Demand loadable kernel modules. Generalize reference counting. ELF. Use of ELF sections to implement virtual base classes in g++. Change to a large offset instead of a single page offset so ld.so can be mapped into the image by the exec() rather than by crt0.o Token Ring drivers. SMP. DDX in the kernel. A partidge in a pear tree... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.