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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:04:17 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > This means we can have all the advantages of modularity at the
>
> Not *all* of them. On vsta, you could do
>
> ( killall keyboard; sleep 1; keyboard ) &

How is that different from the following ?

(rmmod keyboard ; sleep 1 ; modprobe keyboard)

[no, no need to talk about hardware access ... vsta's keyboard
driver also has hardware access]

regards,

Rik
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Will hack the VM for food.

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