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Peter da Silva wrote: >>the screen session. Only it seems that hateful xemacs goes into an infinite >>spin if you kill its connection to the X server unexpectedly. > > > Ah. > > It's not OS X hate, it's Bad X11 Application hate. We get this on Tru64 on > a regular basis. I hacked up a daemon at one point that checked for the top > CPU process and kills it if it's on a short list of hateful apps. Sounds familiar... CPU hog daemons looking for rampant emacs, xlock, netscape. Also lynx (I think lynx had explicit code to IGNORE segfaults.) Or was it pine? The memories are becoming mercifully distant... -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThere's stuff above here
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