Jan Vroonhof writes: ok jan, i tried hard to do my homework, but you know, the heatwave... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NB. i renamed my .emacs, so it was never loaded, line numbers in straces provided by vim ********** 1. gnuserv's strace when starting xemacs -f ... from gwm 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL <unfinished ...> 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 3 --- SIGCONT (Continued) --- 4 <... select resumed> ) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) 5 read(0, "", 1) = 0 6 read(0, "", 1) = 0 ..... ... 73594 read(0, "", 1) = 0 73595 read(0, <unfinished ...> 73596 +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ ********** 2. gnuserv's strace when starting xemacs -f ... from the shell 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- ********** 3. gnuserv's strace when starting xemacs without -f ... from gwm 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 3 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [0]) 4 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 5 --- SIGCONT (Continued) --- 6 read(0, "", 1) = 0 7 read(0, "", 1) = 0 8 read(0, "", 1) = 0 ..... ... 30323 read(0, "", 1) = 0 30324 read(0, "", 1) = 0 ********** 4. from the shell: xemacs -f gnuserv-start < asde.f > pp.f 2>&1 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- ********** 5. the above, from gwm (it doesn't work, as i have a buffer "<", a buffer "asde.f, etc) 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL <unfinished ...> 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 3 --- SIGCONT (Continued) --- 4 <... select resumed> ) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) 5 read(0, "", 1) = 0 6 read(0, "", 1) = 0 ..... ... 17438 read(0, "", 1) = 0 17439 read(0, "", 1) = 0 17440 --- SIGTERM (Terminated) --- ********** 6. the perl script, from the shell 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- ********** 7. the perl script from gwm 1 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 2 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 3 select(5, [0 3 4], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [0]) 4 --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- 5 --- SIGCONT (Continued) --- 6 read(0, "", 1) = 0 7 read(0, "", 1) = 0 ..... ... 3022 read(0, "", 1) = 0 3023 read(0, "", 1) = 0 3024 read(0, "", 1) = 0 3025 --- SIGTERM (Terminated) ---