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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:07:32 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes
Message-ID:  <20040324060732.GA43961@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040323215905.03d63218@66.125.189.29>
References:  <005001c410e5$2d63b1c0$6400a8c0@LAPTOP> <6.0.0.22.2.20040323215905.03d63218@66.125.189.29>

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:01:40PM -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Interesting, I was playing around with KDE and compiled the Kjewel source=
=20
> code (its a tetris clone). When I run it, it doesn't have its puzzle=20
> pieces, but it also causes the entire window system to completely lock up=
.=20
> No keyboard events appear to be getting through. If I telnet into the=20
> system and kill -9 the process, everything comes back to normal. Its a ve=
ry=20
> strange thing that a user process should be able to do that... (this is 4=
.9=20
> w/ KDE 3.2)

Why is it strange, since your window manager is running as a user
process, and has complete control over the local display?

Kris

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