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Subject: Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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le mar 05-03-2002 ? 22:04, Rik van Riel a ?crit :
> 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]

killall works when keyboard is deadlocked, I suppose.


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