Re: [MiNT] XaAES

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

Mark Duckworth skreiv:

> I took from this that a task manager should be system level like MagiC's 
> so even if there's a stuck program it can be terminated.  Usually i have 
> to ssh into my machine from another to kill a stuck program.  Don't need 
> to do this in MagiC.

The task-manager in XaAES is mostly useless when the AES is blocked. The 
reason for this is ofcourse that the task manager itself needs a working 
AES. This is not the case in MagiC, where the task manager is a GEMDOS 
program that doesn't use the AES at all.

It would be possible to write something similar for MiNT/XaAES. Write a 
small application that prints a list of all running processes to the 
screen using VDI only and let the user select which to kill. This 
application can be started by a hotkey directly by the kernel, like 
althelp.sys is today. You could even call it 'althelp.sys' and put it in 
the MiNT directory to trigger it with Alt+Help.

Jo Even