who frees dd and xd in X11_Open?
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:04:45 +0100 From: Adrian Trapletti <adrian@olsen.ch
I don't know if it has something to do with this discussion, but it's probably worth reporting it. Under SunOS pul 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 R : Version 1.2.1 (2001-01-15) Fvwm95 Version 2.0.43a the window manager always crashes when I close an x11() device started within R.
This discussion is about png() and jpeg() devices. We've had other reports about FVWM, though.
...and they too refer to improper error handling by X11. I'm somewhat baffled by the effect reported, though. Surely, an application crashing the window manager is a bug in the latter, not the former? What we've heard of before is that closing X11 windows with the window manager crashes R, but this sounds like the other way around.
Why anyone would use FVWM95 on a system that comes with CDE is an interesting question, though....
Except for the "95" bit I can empathize with it. (and the law of inertia is strong for user interfaces in any case).
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