startxwin.exe no longer exists?

[Erik Soderquist]

<snip>
>> So you want your script to completely mask and/or destroy any evidence
>> that something crashed??
>
>
> No, that is the log file, this is the lock file.  It should rotate the log
> file from the previous run and delete the lock file.

How often do you check your log files for crashes when you have your
script hiding the fact that it crashed from you?

>
>>
>> Also, as the X server is not bound to a tty, it forks to the
>> background on its own anyway, so your pseudocode example would delete
>> the lock file just after the X server started.
>
>
> In that case the the script needs to retrieve the PID of the forked process
> and wait for it to exit.


I would much rather have the binary process clean up after itself like
it is supposed to, and figure out why the binary process is failing to
do so when it doesn't than have a script that hides such failures from
me.

To each its own though.

-- Erik

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