site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Allan Hoeltje wrote: -Shawn _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Thank you all for coping with my continuous stream of newbie questions, hopefully including this one: I have a client application that connects to my KEXT and I am currently testing the KEXT by using kextload and kextunload. I noticed the hard way that if I kextunload the KEXT while my client is running and connected I get the scary "gray curtain of death" - which I guess is the kernel panic everybody refers to. Eventually my KEXT will be put in the startup folder. If the user shuts down with the client still running and connected to the KEXT will I get a kernel panic? I have looked at the XNU source code (thank you Justin!) and thought maybe there was some way for a KEXT to force close all client connections but found none. Is there some way I can handle this? Can you better outline what type of KEXT this is? What IOKit family, etc. are you based on? The answer can depend on family / type of KEXT (but also listen to what other have already responded with). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com