From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CTkZ7-0006WW-Lc for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:22:57 -0800 Received: from smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.33]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CTkZ6-0000QB-IF for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:22:57 -0800 From: Blaisorblade Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: fail xterm_open when we have no $DISPLAY References: <20041115032541.GA13077@taniwha.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: <20041115032541.GA13077@taniwha.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411151824.29365.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:24:29 +0100 To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Jeff Dike , LKML On Monday 15 November 2004 04:25, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > If UML wants to open an xterm channel and the xterm does not run > properly (eg. terminates soon after starting) we will get a hang. > This avoids the most common cause for this and adds a comment (which > long term will go away with a rewrite of that code I guess?) Thanks for drawing attention on this! I hadn't had the time to dig this out... for now reasonably correct, but no time to review it properly now. The review would probably try to find a more direct fix to this... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel