Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4

[John Fortin <fortinj at attglobal dot net>]

But this is a slightly different case.  XWin seqfaults when a client closes.

John

Harold Hunt wrote:

> Oh, I'm positive that it will segfault on all machines at the end... that's
> something that I know would happen, but I don't really want to start working
> on making the shutdown process smooth until I know what has to be shutdown.
> I think that segfault behavior may have pre-dated my changes.
>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:16 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
>
> > Then i noticed some curiosity from the xserver - it always segfaults
> > when it is reset (all client connections got closed)
>
> Also saw this when I ran xwin under gdb...
>
> (gdb) run -screen 0 640x480x16
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
>
> Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin.exe -screen 0 640x480x16
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
> #1  0x403611 in main ()
> #2  0x61003641 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> #3  0x610038b5 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> #4  0x610038f4 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> #5  0x7a7091 in cygwin_crt0 ()
>
> (gdb)
>
> so maybe in miSpriteCloseScreen ???