Hi, After posting this on gnubies and receiving no answer, posting here, in hope to receive some :-)
A co-worker of mine complained to me that the X server crashes sometimes and along with it all the processes using it. Now, I'm not a big unix/linux expert, but it seemed kind of strange to me that a process would crash because a server it was using went down. So I guess I have two questions: 1. What is the technical reason processes crash when the X server they're running under crashes? 2. What (if any) is the high-level (design-level) reason that such a thing is allowed? Why can't one put up a proxy between the processes and the X server which would delegate everything to it, make X server crashes transparent to the processes and allow restarting the X server (again transparently to the processes) when it goes down? It seems like a fairly simple thing to do... Alexander Maryanovsky. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
