From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Aug 23 13:41:49 2009 Message-ID: <4A917E62.20003@online.no> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:37:38 +0200 From: Jo Even Skarstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "mint@lists.fishpool.fi" Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES References: <4A8B0F07.1070207@online.no> <623D00345B344B18A7B27D2D39B40F0A@joevenlt> <20090819164239.5a5t0i6jkgocgs4s@pop.freeola.net> <4A8C5E5E.7030108@online.no> <4A8C6A2C.3020203@online.no> <4A8FDDA5.4030901@online.no> <4A9080F9.6070306@atari-source.org> In-Reply-To: <4A9080F9.6070306@atari-source.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: 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