On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:01:28AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> 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. No it wasn't. After I started shipping our xdm packages with those resources switched on our problems with "xdm loops forever and I can't log in as root on the console to turn it off" went away. This is not because everybody suddenly learned how to type CTRL-R; that would require reading the manaual. > 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. I've seen a little bit of the current (4.0.1) behavior and I think it's badly broken. I haven't had time to examine it. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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