RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Scott Cegielski wrote:

> I wasn'y reffering to your situation specifically.  Even when the script is not
> executed twice, two Xwin.exe processes launch.  That is what I described in the
> first post of this thread.  As I learned, adding the -kb flag makes the second
> Xwin.exe die shortly after the initial launch, but my question is why two are
> loading in the first place.

The XKB extension calls xkbcomp (an external program). This is done via fork. This
means for a short time there are two XWin processes but one of them is transformed
into an xkbcomp process later (check unix semantics for fork and exec for details).
In some cases (textmode mounted /tmp, Personal firewalls and virus scanners) break
the fork/exec calls. BTW: I've not heard any definitive answer if you have any of
the above mentiond programs running.
Disabling the XKB extension will result in not calling xkbcomp, so the lock disappears.

bye
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