severity 234788 wishlist retitle 234788 xfree86: change design of Unix I/O stream handling tag 234788 + wontfix thanks On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:00:12PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0-2 > Severity: critical > > Today .xsession-errors grew over 1.5 gigabyte, filling all free space on /home > partition. Because of that, other programs couldn't save their data, and > some very important data was lost. It's not the first time I lost data because > of sudden explossion of .xsession-errors, so I'm filling a bug report with > this severity. > > I have no idea which program caused so many errors. At the moment it's just 5kB. > But that's not really relevant. The problem is that the .xsession-errors is > misdesigned and must be fixed - I don't care how - by setting reasonable limits > on its size, limiting kind of errors that have to be logged, removing it altogether, > or some other way. But the current situation is not acceptable. Hi, .xsession-error's "design" is simple. It is a Unix file to which the Unix standard output and standard error streams get redirected. I am probably not qualified to architect a replacement for something as venerable as Unix file I/O; I suggest you get in touch with Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. In the meantime, I have a workaround to recommend: $ ln -sf /dev/null $HOME/.xsession-errors Thank you for your report, and if you should happen to visit Dennis or Ken, don't forget to get their autographs. -- G. Branden Robinson | To Republicans, limited government Debian GNU/Linux | means not assisting people they branden@debian.org | would sooner see shoveled into mass http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | graves. -- Kenneth R. Kahn
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