[Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1276259 ] Closing xmaxima issues "kill -TERM -1"

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Bugs item #1276259, was opened at 08/29/05 20:17
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Category: Xmaxima
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Closing xmaxima issues "kill -TERM -1"

Initial Comment:
At least for my particular setup, xmaxima has a very
unfortunate behaviour at shutdown.  I'm running a Linux
x86 box, KDE 3.4, Tcl 8.4, maxima 5.9.1.  Somehow, it
seems that "pid" is set to -1 in line 13603 of xmaxima.
 This sends a kill -TERM to every process it can,
wiping out my login session and any associated jobs
running.  If run as root, it wipes out every logged in
session and every running daemon.

A sanity check on that parameter might be in order
before issuing the kill on Linux.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 08/31/05 13:58

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No, I'm afraid my version of xmaxima is up-to-date, I
installed from maxima-5.9.1, and have never installed any
version previously.  I'm still getting "kill -TERM -1".  My
RunMaxima.tcl file is version 1.18, and the version string
embedded in the concatenated xmaxima file in my path matches
that value.  If you see the loop at line 295, it will only
continue to the "xmaxima is running" state when pid becomes
something other than "none".  Apparently, it's coming back
set to -1.

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Comment By: Robert Dodier (robert_dodier)
Date: 08/31/05 07:37

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It would appear that you're running an old version of
xmaxima; at present the default value for pid is "none".

The "kill -1" bug appears to have been fixed in -r1.15
interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/RunMaxima.tcl (see
http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/maxima/maxima/ and drill down
from there).

If your xmaxima says ``set pid -1'' instead of ``set pid
"none"'' then your version is out of date. Is there more
than one xmaxima on your system? 

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