RE: [Linux-fbdev-devel] API prototype doc

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 18:15, Sottek, Matthew J wrote:

> So what should be done on a vt switch?
> I think it may be ok to zap() someone's mmap during a vt switch but
> otherwise make them work out their own policy. vt switches are
> slow anyway.
>=20
> I am unsure of how XFree handles this. Does the X server trap the
> vt switch sequence, call leave_vt() then switch the vt?

More or less, yes. It has a semaphore to guard hardware access.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
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