On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, John Tapsell wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andrew V. Stiegmann wrote: > > > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > > > and start again. > Couldn't we have X look for a running process, and if none found, > delete the lock? > > If not automatically, then ask the user whether to. > > It does seem rather silly to bother the user about this.
Care to write platform independent code to do that. Sorry make that code that runs on all our platforms, warts and all. More seriously, if the lock file is there but no process is running, then something nasty happened. I think that the user ought to know about that, so that they can take corrective action. Don't forget that things like xdm run X repeatedly. If something like this happens I'd rather have a tight loop if X start, notice a problem and stop, than have a tight loop of notice a problem, pretend it didn't happen and then perhaps go on to do something that might well make a confused graphics card worse. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
