[comp.windows.x] uwm persists after server crash

paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (04/29/89)

In article <39796@think.UUCP> barmar@think.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
->I've noticed that if my X11 server (running on a Symbolics Lispm)
->crashes the uwm process on the Sun doesn't notice, and hangs around
->until I manually kill it.  Usually I have an xterm and a GNU Emacs
->running, and they notice the crash and kill themselves off.  Why
->doesn't uwm?

The same thing happens to me when I kill the X11 server on my Amiga.  In
my case dxwm hangs around (even for days) until I manually kill it.  This
is on a MicroVAX running ULTRIX 3.0.



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