Re: icewm and xterm

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

I've just fixed this in the CVS code.

Alan.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:05:19PM +0100, Steven O'Brien wrote:
> 
> Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> > Hi,  I'm using icewm and I found that if I try to use xterm in the menu or
> > toolbar I get the message:
> 
> > xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
> 
> Xterm generates this message when it is started without a controlling
> terminal. The following program demonstrates this:
> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> int main() {
>         if (fork() == 0) {
>                 setsid();
>                 execlp("xterm", "xterm", NULL);
>         }
> }
> 
> When run this generates the above error (assuming the X11R6 bin directory is
> in your path). If you remove the call to setsid() then xterm starts.
> 
> This looks like a bug in the xterm code, as I don't see why it should need
> to inherit a controlling tty, but maybe someone can enlighten me here.
> 
> Steven
> 
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