[18596] in Athena Bugs
Re: Our screen saver is sensitive to running out of swap space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Dec 7 18:51:19 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:51:16 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200012072351.SAA123026@aupair.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu, vchudnov@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18595] in Athena Bugs"
Another approach might be to trap SIGSEGV and other fatal signals,
and attempt to re-exec the program, and/or to wrap xscreensaver in a
program which restarts it when it crashes. Admittedly, though, there
may well be some state initialization issues which would make this
infeasible.
Bob
