Re: [tlug] Giving a program priority briefly

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:

 > On 11/06/07, Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Jun 10, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Josh Glover wrote:
 > >
 > > > On 10/06/07, Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
 > > >
 > > >> Why does the TCP/IP-stack run in single user mode? I thought that
 > > >> there's no networking in single user mode?
 > > >
 > > > Boo-yah! Take that, Steve! ;)
 > >
 > > I assume that this answer means that the TCP/IP-stack does not run in
 > > single user mode? :)

 > Yup. :)

Er, what stops it from running, if you have it and the hardware driver
built in, and not loaded as a module?  Of course, you won't have an
address configured (at least on some distros), which means that you'll
never get to the TCP or UDP protocol level, but hardware interrupts
will still be delivered to the CPU, which will send them to a hardware
driver, which will do something with them, no?

Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen single-user mode where localhost is
configured, etc.

I don't really care if I win this one, but I do worry about loose talk
like "no networking in single user mode".  What, do you enable single
user mode by pulling all the hardware out?  Sounds kinda violent (and
ever farther from the OP's request for a clickable "full speed ahead"
GUI button for apps being benchmarked!)