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From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:36:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CACoZoo3A7nfTLbesK==QGqporj+2RM1YxV6qg0hm34zBJETCTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <f0cd88b0d4227baff5793410155de6d1@saf.bio.caltech.edu> <snip> >> So you want your script to completely mask and/or destroy any evidence >> that something crashed?? > > > No, that is the log file, this is the lock file. It should rotate the log > file from the previous run and delete the lock file. How often do you check your log files for crashes when you have your script hiding the fact that it crashed from you? > >> >> Also, as the X server is not bound to a tty, it forks to the >> background on its own anyway, so your pseudocode example would delete >> the lock file just after the X server started. > > > In that case the the script needs to retrieve the PID of the forked process > and wait for it to exit. I would much rather have the binary process clean up after itself like it is supposed to, and figure out why the binary process is failing to do so when it doesn't than have a script that hides such failures from me. To each its own though. -- Erik -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-17 18:36 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-12-13 16:20 Will Parsons 2014-12-13 18:17 ` Marco Atzeri 2014-12-16 2:50 ` Will Parsons 2014-12-16 2:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) 2014-12-16 3:30 ` Will Parsons 2014-12-16 3:35 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) 2014-12-16 14:29 ` Mark Hansen 2014-12-16 16:00 ` Erik Soderquist 2014-12-16 16:36 ` rcunningham 2014-12-16 17:06 ` Erik Soderquist 2014-12-16 17:23 ` rcunningham 2014-12-16 22:58 ` Will Parsons 2014-12-16 23:39 ` Erik Soderquist 2014-12-17 17:29 ` mathog 2014-12-17 17:40 ` Erik Soderquist 2014-12-17 17:52 ` mathog 2014-12-17 18:36 ` Erik Soderquist [this message] 2014-12-17 19:02 ` mathog
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