Re: Monolithic Vs. Microkernel

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 06:22:41 EST


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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