RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

We need to debug this.  This problem was not there before, i.e.segfaulting
when a X-client closes connection to Server.  Could be in
miSpriteCloseScreen ()
or in hw/dix/main.c in main subroutine.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:51 PM
> Cc: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
>
>
> But this is a slightly different case.  XWin seqfaults when a
> client closes.
>
> John
>
> Harold Hunt wrote:
>
> > Oh, I'm positive that it will segfault on all machines at
> the end... that's
> > something that I know would happen, but I don't really want
> to start working
> > on making the shutdown process smooth until I know what has
> to be shutdown.
> > I think that segfault behavior may have pre-dated my changes.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:16 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
> >
> > > Then i noticed some curiosity from the xserver - it
> always segfaults
> > > when it is reset (all client connections got closed)
> >
> > Also saw this when I ran xwin under gdb...
> >
> > (gdb) run -screen 0 640x480x16
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
> >
> > Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin.exe -screen 0 640x480x16
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
> > #1  0x403611 in main ()
> > #2  0x61003641 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> > #3  0x610038b5 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> > #4  0x610038f4 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> > #5  0x7a7091 in cygwin_crt0 ()
> >
> > (gdb)
> >
> > so maybe in miSpriteCloseScreen ???
>