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  • From: Eric Fielding <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:23:48 +0000

Sean Ahern wrote:

John Davidorff Pell wrote:


You're right, any app that uses the display will die when the display
dies.



Technical nitpick: Not always. I haven't tried this with Apple's X11, but I've certainly seen it with other platforms. I wrote a program once that only listened for events on other windows but did not create any windows of its own. If a display went away, the app didn't necessarily quit. It still sat around, waiting for events which (obviously) never came. I had to add a periodic "ping" of the X server to see if it was still around and close down if not.



I've see applications that go into infinite loops if the X server goes away without warning. They should die, but don't always ;-).

Cheers,
       ++Eric
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