ron@uts.amdahl.com (Ron Hughes) (04/19/91)
Has anyone seen a bug in which xterm gets stuck in a full-throttle loop? We've seen it here at Amdahl running x terminals under xdm if the user's .xsession terminates prematurely. The xterms get fired off in the background, and if, before they really get going, the session terminates (say, due to a fatal typo in the user's .twmrc file), the server drops the connection to the xterm client. But if the client is waiting for the window manager (XtNwaitForWm, XtNwmTimeout) it gets stuck bad. Of couse, with the session terminated there's no window--just a cycle- sucking spinning process that runs & runs until someone gets around to determining why things are slowing down. I think I've tracked down where the bug is occurring, but it appears to be platform-independent, which makes me wonder why I haven't heard about it elsewhere.