On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:56AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:43:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > The code to do this has existed in xdm for a very long time, but XFree86 > > always shipped with it turned off. I turned it back on (it just involves a > > few resource settings for the display manager, see the xdm manpage), 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... > > > > If you're saying, "Huh?" right about now, that's okay, because I did too. > > No, I can understand that. - that exact circumstance would occur in our > University computer science lab. Regularly too, I might add. Eh? With no gaps between? Remember, the X server is running even if it's idling at the X server login widget. That factors into the 6 second average. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been branden@deadbeast.net | garbled. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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