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Date:      16 Jul 2002 19:07:34 -0700
From:      Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To:        George <jirka@5z.com>
Cc:        ezislis <kesor@mail.ru>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GDM 2.4.0.x & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1026871655.9621.64.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
In-Reply-To: <20020715225248.GI19585@monique.linux.bogus>
References:  <20020713234810.GA18421@monique.linux.bogus> <20020714024846.R75796-100000@finone.ulp.co.il>  <20020715225248.GI19585@monique.linux.bogus>

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On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 15:52, George wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 02:51:05AM +0300, ezislis wrote:
> > I dont completely understand where is the problem, and thus cant think of a way to fix it..
> > i'm all confused with daemon, slave, greeter, etc.. dont see where 0,1,2 stdio
> > get into all of this..
> 
> I further cleaned up the comm stuff.  The reason why 0,1,2 gets into the
> problem is that these are the descriptors that gdm uses to communicate to the 
> greeter (at least 0,1)  Also since at various places we assume these are the
> correct descriptors having them be something like some open file or the X
> connection would be very very bad.
> 
> What I did today in CVS is changed it to not use the buffered libc IO.  This
> was not proper anyway.  Can you try today's CVS?  That is the changes up to:

I don't know how to get your changes out of CVS.  CVS where?

> Mon Jul 15 15:47:11 2002  George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
> 
> 	* daemon/errorgui.c, daemon/misc.[ch], daemon/server.c,
> 	  daemon/slave.c:  Clean up the comm stuff to only use unbuffered
> 	  libc functions.  This might fix the freebsd issues perhaps,
> 	  maybe.  Also fix some almost impossible to happen races.
> 
> George
> 
> -- 
> George <jirka@5z.com>
>    A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
>    and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a
>    poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
>    after death.
>                        -- Albert Einstein
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