Re: on exit xterm totally wrecks linux 2.4.11 to 2.4.14-pre6 (unkillable processes)

From: Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 15:13:56 EST


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nick LeRoy wrote:

> Marked experiment, for now. What about when it's no longer "experimental"?
> Configuring a kernel to enable such a feature should *not* break
> applications, especially something as prolific as xterm.

Are you sure you know what you are talking about? Devfs causes this
problem because of a defect, not by design. It is marked experimental
because it's loaded with such defects. Don't use it until the
experimental tag is removed, if you are not prepared for some malfunction.

-jwb

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