Re: [TCLUG:17072] Rebuttal

[Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:

> Quoting Callum Lerwick (lerwick@tcfreenet.org):
> > > Personally I doubt this will happen. The separation of the OS from the
> > > application in Unix (not just linux) means an application cannot crash the OS.
> > > This is not to say I have not had an application lock up linux, like when
> > > using pnp to config a sound card, so your point is taken. But over all I have
> > > found in 5 users of heavy use linux is far more stable when running
> > > applications.
> > 
> > Note that isapnp is running as root and banging hardware directly, thus
> > bypassing the OS...
> > 
> > And its also b0rking up hardware* and hanging the box, not the OS...
> 
> Yes, but pnp is an appplication, do the newbie it is what caused the hang.
> That was my point. :-)

Yep, like the time I accidently gave a PNP card IRQ 14 without thinking.
I was able to recover it off the disk cache without rebooting (if I'd
rebooted I would have been _so_hosed_). 

Thank Linus for persistent disk cache ;)

Daniel Taylor