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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:22:41 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel
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Hi!

> > > 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]

Standart tools for standard tasks. And if there's while(1); in VSTa's
keyboard handler will not prevent killall.
								Pavel
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