[3896] in Athena Bugs
exit xterm from mwm menu, get broken pipe message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 4 19:20:50 1990
From: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 19:20:37 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
6.4R from pVax
What happened: I exited an xterm from the mwm menu option "kill program".
It successfully killed the xterm, but sent the following message to my console
window:
xterm: Broken pipe
When I exited an xterm by typing "exit" at my unix prompt, no such message
appeared in my console window.
I would not have expected to get a message in my console window because I
exited my xterm via an mwm menu, rather than exiting the process with a
unix command.
I'm not sure that this is a "bug", but perhaps (to my mind) a mis-feature.
What should have happened: My console window should not be disturbed because
I decide to exit an xterm, provided I exit it on purpose.
--Beth
