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nanny looping

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Apr 14 13:09:13 1999

To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:08:59 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>

While trying to shut down the window system on IRIX, I managed to
put nanny into a loop, repeatedly waiting on an X console child
that was apparently no longer valid.  From a glance at the source,
it looks like there could be a race condition in the code that
kills console; I will investigate further.

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