Date: 16 Mar 2002 00:18:05 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, bmah@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Preparing innocent users for -current Message-ID: <xzppu25pgia.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <nospam-1016232255.21432@bambi.gbch.net> References: <20020308110442.G32653-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <xzpy9gtpwx4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <nospam-1016232255.21432@bambi.gbch.net>
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Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > | Ages-old, very difficult to fix. Just don't use xconsole. > You left out the final sentence with the suggested alternative. There is no suggested alternative. The problem is well-known and has been around for a long time, and there is simply no easy way to fix it. Your options are: 1) use xconsole, deal with the panics. 2) don't use xconsole, avoid the panics. 3) fix it yourself. For further details, consult _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, under "Don't do that, then!" (p. 157 in the 3rd ed.) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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