Re: [dev] [slock] kill slock with Ctrl+Alt+Multiply

From: Roman Z. <romanz_AT_lavabit.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:25:25 +0100

> On 21 January 2012 01:13, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Þann fös 20.jan 2012 23:42, skrifaði Rob:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 07:01:22PM +0000, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> >>   Surely it just destroys the window, you can't get a PID for any X
> >> window,
> >> since it could be a networked one
> >>
> >
> > As I expected. The PID is usually stored in a window property, as is the
> > hostname, of every or most windows. But this is a flat out bug in slock.
> > Slock should survive window destruction, right?
>
> Did anyone reproduce this issue with slock?

Yes, slock is affected too.

> I pushed a change that adds a dummy error handler instead. Please
> could anyone test hg tip if it is still affected?
> (Though the correct handling will be recreating the particular slock
> window as well).

No change. Maybe this gives you a hint though: this is printed when
slock is killed with ctrl+alt+multiply, with both the old version and
the patched version:

> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
> after 28 requests (28 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


Roman
Received on Sun Jan 22 2012 - 18:25:25 CET