Hi Grant,
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Grant McDorman wrote:
> One problem with FvwmButtons is that in its cleanup code it does
> signal(SIG_PIPE, SIG_IGN);
> and then tries to communicate with the server. If the server connection has
> been broken - as in the case here - this results in FvwmButtons going into
> a tight CPU-consuming loop [at least on my platform, Sun Solaris 2.4].
>
> This sort of server shutdown/reset also happens on multiscreen displays,
> which is how I found it. I have made a change to FvwmButtons to try and
> fix this problem (by changing the signal handling to 'exit' instead of
> SIG_IGN). I haven't checked to see if other Fvwm modules, or the main
> code, has this problem too, though. I also haven't posted the change
> to list [yet].
[...]
If your change is working, I'd appreciate if you could post it to the
list together with the change for fvwm itself.
Thanks a lot for your answer -- Tom
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