It would be nice if people read and responded to my whole messages rather than
getting insulting about isolated lines taken out of context.


On 27-Apr-98 Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:46:15 -0000 (GMT) 
> jiho@postal.c-zone.net wrote:
>
> > > Why are you assuming that this has something to do with the kernel?
> > 
> > As just reiterated.
>
>I don't understand... your "just reiterated" comment doens't suggest
>that it has anything to do with the kernel...
>
>Did you try what I suggested (exit the X server and see if the "leaked"
>memory has been recovered)?
>
> > Well, I wasn't entirely serious there, except to point out, that's the only
> > other distinguishing feature, versus character mode situations (the first
being
> > that the X server and xterm are suid).
>
>The setuid-ness of the X server and xterm wouldn't affect this at all...
>
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