Re: Fatal error in pipefs.c (RE: [MiNT] a clean "shutdown" command?)

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hi Draco!

> > > work as intended.
> > 
> > But it is kernel bug :-(.
> 
> Well, this may be either a kernel bug or the concept of the vcons is
> broken. I mean, it seems, that the "bug" may be gone if vcons would be at
> least partially recoded so that the part that drives the screens and
> handles the keyboard would be an XDD driver that could be eventually used
> by a daemon. The fatal error that occurs at shutdown time is apparently
> correct and means a broken pipeline.

A FATAL error is always a kernel bug. If a FATAL statement is reached the
kernel itself is in an inconsistent state and can't be go on.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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