Concerning runaway processes:
A couple of years ago, the "tin" that came along with the linux
distribution I was using would run away if its window were killed. I have
had instances where "less" would do the same thing. FvwmButtons (or maybe
the FvwmPager; I forget which) for a time was doing this same runaway
thing. I also use HP-UX machines (with fvwm 1.23), but I can't remember
for certain whether any of these runaways have occurred on HP machines.
Based on what I have heard and seen, it seems to be a process problem,
rather than a window manager thing, although I suspect it is possible that
some window managers do an ad hoc enforcement of "die, Barney, die". A
terminal-connected process should note when it is no longer connected, and
simply terminate rather than sucking up all of the CPU it can get in an
attempt to read something from /dev/null or whatever replaces the missing
terminal.
Michael Tiefenback
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Received on Tue Jan 07 1997 - 09:32:09 GMT