Re: [AC21.4] patch to fix infinite loop on gdm logout SUPERCEDES

[snip] Stephen> What's happening here is that people are assuming session management Stephen> and logging out from xdm/gdm/whatever, without shutting down XEmacs. Stephen> That's the situation that generates the symptom (lingering XEmacs Stephen> process consuming 100% CPU). Stephen> gdm, as you would expect[1], takes all the care of a Microsoft Stephen> operating system in shutting down. Anyway, XEmacs loses its last X Stephen> device and goes into a spin in that CONSOLE_DEVICE_LOOP. A real Stephen> session manager would shut down XEmacs (the user has logged out of the Stephen> session that XEmacs was started in, and XEmacs is a foreground app Stephen> there). xdm and xsm both do this. Stephen> I believe (but haven't checked) that the patch "works" because after Stephen> finding no connections the code falls through to a place where XEmacs Stephen> realizes it has no live consoles and exits. just so you know this patch has fixed the problem when logging out of gdm my XEmacs process i left active when i logged out yesterday to test what would happen was indead stopped [snip] -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>