> Pardon my (extreme) ignorance of XFree86 internals and such but could a
> SIGSEGV signal handler be used? You know, "Hey, I received a SIGSEGV, I
> better restore the text screen and quit." (With, of course, setting a flag
> so that it doesn't try to restore the screen if it receives another SIGSEGV
> while restoring the screen.)
exactly what happens already for _many_ years ;-)
> Then if you do a 'kill -9' on the X server from an xterm, it's your own
> fault.
yep, what I was saying too.
but Kristian Koehntopp and Alan Cox mentioned, that the kernel might
issue that nasty `kill -9' too when running out of memory just when the
X server needs some more memory. so it can't be completely avoided
right now (maybe in the future? see other thread...) but it's much
less likely than talking about users doing `kill -9 ...'
Harald
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