Re: [MiNT] Fwd: Re: marathon,was:Egale

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:00:40 +0100, Helmut Karlowski
> <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
>
> >>  Am Sonntag, den 19.02.2012, 22:32 +0100 schrieb Helmut Karlowski
> >>  <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:
> >>
> >>> XaAES can set the apid for the slb to the one of the caller, which
> >>> fixes  most issues, but it's still not a clean program and will kill
> >>> the system  sooner or later.
>
> [...]
>
> > It's not only for marathon but to improve the general stability.
>
> I don't think these two statements are compatible ;) If this hack causes a

It would kill the system immediately else.

> (delayed) system crash, then it doesn't improve general stability at all.
> Instead it could prevent the user from detecting the real cause of the
> problem.

The instability does not nessecarily come from the slb - there are probably many other issues in marathon.

> If calling the AES from slb_init causes problems, then XaAES should
> immediately kill the application and display a warning. You are not
> supposed to call the AES from slb_init anyway, so in this particular case
> it's a matter of fixing the SLB.

Let the user decide ;-)


-Helmut