Remember, we're talking about defending against signals from a hostile
root who wants to crash the video card. In this scenario, not even the
kernel can do it -- root can install a kernel module which overwrites
the CLI instruction in the "atomic" code with a NOP. It's a little
more work than "killall -9 XF86_SVGA".
> Sorry> trusting the X server, you convinced me of that. I will NOT buy the X
> server being unable to handle signal 9 correctly.
Boy, it's no wonder Linus is grumpy these days.
Kragen
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