kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar) (06/25/91)
We are having a problem with X applications running on a Unix workstation that are talking to an X server on a Mac. If the Mac is shut off without gracefully shutting down the X server, all of the processes on the Unix workstation hang indefinitely. I've seen similar problems reported about X applications staying around when an X terminal is shut off, but I didn't pay much attention to the thread at that time (we use xdm with out X terminals, and xdm cleans up the X applications when it restarts, so they are relatively self-correcting in this area.) Does anybody have an elegant solution that we could try (our ideas seem pretty brutal at this point), or will future Xlib applications include some sort of server heartbeat and know when a server has gone away? Thanks, John Kochmar +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Kochmar | | SEI Computing Facilities "You are a pain, Dirk." | | kochmar@sei.cmu.edu "I am a cat, High Lord." |