From: Kevin (kkadowgmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 14:59:22 CDT

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On 9/1/05, Christopher Linn <celinnmtu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:17:06PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> > On 8/31/05, Christopher Linn <celinnmtu.edu> wrote:
> > > > Kevin Kadow wrote:
> > > > > only found a couple of X applications (xtacy, xlock) failing on signal 11.
> > > ^^^^^
> > > oooooooooooo, that's a biggie..
> >
> > I can't tell if you were being serious or sarcastic?
>
> at the risk of posting public reply to private email (i think it's
> probably OK in this case...)

It's OK. Glad that you thought twice about it, so many people don't.

> quite serious actually. my desktop is an openbsd box, and my office
> is adjacent to a semi-public area at a university. i frequently leave
> my office for a few minutes at a time up to a few hours. so, yes i
> really do depend on it.

Coming back to an open terminal that I know I locked was a bit of a shock.
Almost makes me wonder if xlock can be trusted. You'd think it'd set a
sighandler when going into a mode, and not 'exit' just because one mode
subroutine threw an exception.

I'll send a diff to add an additional "**WARNING**" section to the man page.

KK

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