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- From: greg@athena.cs.uga.edu (Greg Whitlock)
- Subject: Re: xterm phantoms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.163934.1870@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1eb92mINNdan@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.070243.103@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:39:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.070243.103@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- >In article <1eb92mINNdan@life.ai.mit.edu>, bruce@maypo.ai.mit.edu (Bruce Walton) writes:
- >
- >As for how to do this, you could just write a character to the relevant
- >pty. If it's not a ghost, the character will appear inexplicably in
- >the window, but I don't see any good way around that, unless you can
- >think of something else you could send that'll force xterm to try to do
- >something with the X server.
-
- After someone exits "improperly" from our Xtubes they leave "zombies"
- lying around. The only way I know to rid your system of these are
- 1) waiting for someone to log into they tty the zombie controls or
- 2) rebooting. Maybe someone knows of other way.
- The zombies don't appear to harm anything (ie, load avg). At this
- point, in appears the X server is out of the picture and it's the
- OS's job to handle the zombies.
-
- Any other comments on this?
-
- -greg
-