[20762] in Athena Bugs
Re: sw_messages doesn't take well to being backgrounded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Sep 19 14:41:00 2002
Message-Id: <200209191840.OAA04649@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:12:40 EDT."
<Pine.GSO.4.33L.0209191209230.18858-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:40:58 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> hmm. when I added the message and tested it, I'm pretty sure I ran
> 'netscape &' because that's the way I always launch it. I can't think of a
> reason WHY the send-message stuff would have problems running in the
> background. Also, an error about a lockfile seems suspect (as if
> indicating the presence of some other problem). But I will take a look.
I can reproduce it pretty easily.
Login as test account. Kill zwgc. rm .sw_messages. Run 'netscape &'.
Lose.
I should have been clearer in my initial report; the people who're xhosting
oddly are losing because their dotfiles didn't start zwgc, so the wrapper's
falling back to writing to their terminal.
