Re: [MiNT] XaAES:Singletask-mode

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:35 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> I've implemented a single-task-mode in XaAES.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by "single-task" ??

> This implies:
> 
> Stop all AES-Clients except the console-owner if any (e.g. toswin)
> 
> Call ikbd_scan in the kernel directly not via addroottimeout in case
> the single-task-client disabled the timer-interrupt.
> 
> 
> To control this currently there has to be the bit 16 (0x10000) in
> p_flags of the relevant binary.
> 
> 
> Is it ok to use this bit?

If it's not defined, I'd assume it's o.k. to define and take that bit.

> I'd like to get to know who is responsible for console, who is using
> /dev/xconout2. Maybe fcntl(F_GETLK) would work? This is important
> because the single-task-client possibly does tty-IO. It would also be
> possible to introduce a 'dont_stop'-config-parameter for xaaes.cnf.

I'd like to know more about single-task AES to understand the need for
the feature ?

Thanks,

Alan.