Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-604832 ] xmaxima can kill Xwindows
Subject: Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-604832 ] xmaxima can kill Xwindows
From: James Amundson
Date: 05 Sep 2002 15:40:46 -0500
What is the difference between this bug and bug 545221? I fixed that bug
months ago in revision 1.2 of xmaxima.tcl.
--Jim
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 19:58, noreply@sourceforge.net wrote:
> Bugs item #604832, was opened at 2002-09-05 00:58
> You can respond by visiting:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=104933&aid=604832&group_id=4933
>
> Category: None
> Group: None
> Status: Open
> Resolution: None
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Mike Clarkson (mikeclarkson)
> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Summary: xmaxima can kill Xwindows
>
> Initial Comment:
> There's a pathalogical condition if xmaxima fails to start the
> saved_maxima; the pid naturally does not get set, but
> closeMaxima does not check that the pid has been set in
>
> linkLocal $win maximaSocket pid
>
> so when it executes
>
> catch {
> CMkill -TERM $pid
> unset pid
> }
>
> it kills Xwindows (at least for me under Linux).
>
> I'll check in a patch that makes sure pid is not null.
>
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