Interesting article but I just have to say that XLaunchNewImage is basically execve or kexec. Calling it “rebooting” makes it seem like the game developers put

Interesting article but I just have to say that XLaunchNewImage is basically execve or kexec. Calling it “rebooting” makes it seem like the game developers put in some dirty/crazy hacks when in reality all they did was call a public API that was explicitly designed to accommodate this use case (e.g. not resetting video state).