At 09:09 AM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Yes I've seen it. *I'm going to take a stab in the dark & pray I kill someone <G>*. As far as I can tell, this is XMMS forking diff parts of itself with different parts of its program running.I just did some security updating in 8.2, and now when I open xmms, I have four instances running. Not four players on the screen, but if I do "ps -Af| grep xmms" it reports there are 4. I noticed this because the info-pipe I use to tell the last 5 songs lists the same song 5 times.I'm using xmms 1.2.4. Has anybody else seen this? Todd
Example: The skin you use may need to be a separate process when one is switched (If I use the "random skin on play" option for example) on/off then when its run its course (skin is loaded) the task ends. At the same time it may be using separate processes as well for say... running some visual plug-in, running the playlist editor, and using the ARTS daemon or OSS daemon all at once.
Now I'm pretty sure I'm not right in my presumptions here but its the only thing I've found to explain the mess that ps -ax presents to me.
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