[18595] in Athena Bugs
Re: Our screen saver is sensitive to running out of swap space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 7 12:50:31 2000
Message-Id: <200012071745.MAA07735@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, vchudnov@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:19:37 GMT."
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:45:27 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Could you glance at the sub-process code and see if it's currently
> allowing death to be cumulative?
Empirically, killing off the screenhack subprocess with SIGSEGV
doesn't cause xscreensaver to exit. It eventually puts up a new
screenhack.
