[26017] in Athena Bugs
Re: .sw_messages problem causes acrobat to freeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Aug 30 15:33:36 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200408301933.i7UJXFOo010416@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
To: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[26013] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
cc: alexp@mit.edu
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Short answer: Don't background acroread when you start it from a
terminal where WGFILE isn't set (implying zwgc is running).
Long answer: This behavior is longstanding and expected. The issue is
that send_message uses whether $WGFILE is set to determine to send a new
software message via zephyr or by displaying it via $PAGER or "more" if
$PAGER isn't set. If you background the wrapper script and send_message
chooses to use more, it will get SIGTTOU and the process will suspend
itself, and require you to "fg" to continue.
Note that if you are using owl as your zephyr client, WGFILE will never
be set and send_message will always choose to use $PAGER. paco
presumeably has vanilla dotfiles and so uses zwgc.
Note that this is the same issue that Jacob reported and analyzed in
bugs[25876].
Alex, can you fix the top level wrapper script in the acro locker the
same way it was fixed in the matlab locker?
Garry
