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RE: Debugging the client exit crashes
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Debugging the client exit crashes
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:50:33 -0500
> I built an XFree86 source tree with -g and started using gdb
> to step through
> the code around when a client exit causes the X server to exit.
>
> You'll be interested to know that the exit comes from the
> Dispatch function
> in dix/dispatch.c, after a call to WaitForSomething in
> os/WaitFor.c, and
> Dispatch calls KillAllClients in dix/dispatch.c right before
> the server
> exits.
>
> What's that mean? Well, it means that my code is not at fault :)
>
> What else does it mean? Don't expect a fix anytime soon :(
>
> Suhaib will probably have to look into this one.
>
I will look into it. BUT I will say same, DO NOT EXPECT A FIX SOON,
at least not for the next two weeks. I am flooded with projects at work
and had been spending 12 hours in office - yuck!!!
BTW: That is actually UNIX design, when you press crtl+a;t+backspace,
server
kills all clients then exists.
Suhaib
> Harold
>