At Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:41 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:06:22PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Michael Banck, le mer 09 mar 2005 17:58:05 +0100, a dit : > > > 3. Running the Hurd console in a tight endless loop results in mayhem if > > > the user introduces errors the console-client choks on in > > > /etc/default/hurd-console, one would have to reboot into single-user > > > mode to fix it. > > > > Some DMs like GDM do detect such tight-loop error, and stop retrying, > > which makes the console usable again after a few tries. The Hurd console > > may probably use such way. > > Patches welcome :)
Assuming you are only interested in avoiding resource consumption due to the high restart rate, you could just sleep for 5 seconds or so before restarting the console. Something like: while : do start_hurd_console sleep 5 done Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]