Re: X and runlevels
>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> and sent patches to XFree86 a long time ago, but the patch was
> ignored, and Dirk Hohndel basically told me I was an idiot for
> doing so, because it might unexpectedly terminate the server in the
> quite common case of four X session logins in a row that averaged
> less than 6 seconds each...
Huh all right. I don't understand what you/he meant by that, but the
code that was patched (the xdm shipped with 3.3.2) was broken. In
fact, the current code in 4.0.1 has been heavily patched to *enable*
this functionality. No idea when that happend, sometime between 6.3
and 6.4 it would seem, and AFAICS, it was patched up-upstream, not by
xfree86.
The patch worked based on the *number* of consecutive failures. The
current code works based on the *time* between failures, and it's
rather agressive at that IMO.
Amazed,
Marcelo
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