wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson) (02/20/90)
My officemate and I are having trouble with SunView on our 3/50's. I have a program that gives problems when it's running in a command (scrollable) window. At a certain point in its execution, the window folds up and disappears. A funny thing happens after that, as well -- if the next window I create is a command window, that window dies the first time I hit return, and it too disappears. Then I get a message in the console window saying that a command window has exited because its child process exited, and that it was because of signal number 1. Sometimes the next window I open doesn't disappear, but freezes instead, and the window system doesn't repaint it properly. (If I overlap it with another window, and then move the other window away again, the other windows contents are still visible in the frozen window.) This program doesn't use signal number 1, and in fact I commented out the only two lines involving signals at all, and I still get this problem. So even if the program does not include signal.h, and doesn't ever do any signal handling, it still happens. My officemate has a problem sometimes using vi in a shelltool window -- I don't know if it's related. Sometimes the window just freezes up, and that's that. This may occur when he has typed ahead as vi starts up. Anybody know what's going on here? Paul R. Wilson wilson@bert.eecs.uic.edu