Re: No more FvwmScript-ThemesCenter: exit!

[Andre G. <abg...@uw...>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:18:21AM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> Thanks for the report.
> About, The FvwmScript scripts (Theme and Config Center and the
> Menu editor) it seems that the perl command "kill" does not work
> on your bsd machine (or is not used in the good way).
> Andre, can you try the following. Open an application, say an xterm,
> see which is the PID of this app. Say that it is pidnum. Then, try
> 
> perl -e 'print "OK\n" if kill 0 => pidnum'
> 
> this should print OK.
> 
> perl -e 'kill 9 => pidnum'
> 
> this should kill your app.
> 
> About the problems that cause core, it seems to me that these
> problems are FVWM problems. What version of FVWM do you use?
> I strongly encourage you to use 2.3.28 and 2.3.29 when this
> version will be out (this version will be very close from 2.4).
> 
> Thanks, Olivier

Hello Olivier,

I'm glad to hear that my report was useful and that we're getting
closer to the source of the problem :-)

The perl examples work as you described:

ago@mandark$ perl --version
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd

ago@mandark$ perl -e 'print "OK\n" if kill 0 => 1023'
OK
ago@mandark$ perl -e 'kill 9 => 1023'
Killed 
(and the program gets killed)

My fvwm version (sorry, i forgot to mention):
FVWM version 2.3.29 compiled on Feb 19 2001 at 20:43:46
with support for: ReadLine, XPM, GNOME WM hints, SM

I "cvs update" fvwm and fvwm-themes on a regular basis now 
while i cvsup the FreeBSD source code and ports, which is at 
least once a week.

Hmm, regarding the core dumps, i saw symbols of ibXThrStub.so.6
getting loaded when i loaded the core files in my debugger.
There's currently something going on about -pthread (threads) in
the ports mailing list, by insiders called the "-pthread weirdness".
I believe this also affects Xthreads in XFree86-4.0.2 which i'm using, 
so it could also be an X problem. 

I think it's best to leave the core files for what they are at the 
moment and let us concentrate on the problems we can solve:)

Regards,
-- Andre.