severity 287876 wishlist retitle 287876 xfree86-common: Xsession does nothing to prevent $HOME/.xsession-errors from growing very large merge 276545 287876 thanks On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > is this a duplicate of bug #276545? Yes. > I am wondering if it is sufficient to truncate .xsession-errors only on X > startup, or really make sure that the file never exceeds a certain size. There are a number of approaches that could be taken. The only one that no one seems to like is the status quo, where the responsibility lies on X client software to stop blasting crap to standard error like a fire hose. One can't expect too much of GUI programmers, I suppose. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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