Re: module references

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
>>
>>> Are modules ever automatically unloaded? When? If so, we need a lot
>>> more reference counting. If not, we've got some unnecessary complexity
>>> we should remove.
>>
>> It's done so you can not remove a module that is in use by GRUB or
>> another module.  For example when you open a file for a long time.
> 
> Please describe for me how I can trigger this bug. In other words, what
> commands can I run to unload a filesystem module while a file is open?

One way at least is to use font subsystem. That at least keeps file open.

See guide from Okuji's message how to create font file and:

insmod font
font .../fontfile.pff