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From: bass@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problem with xterm on ps2 aix x-windows
Summary: xterm is the parent of the X session
Message-ID: <1001@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 01:48:44 GMT
References: <616620722.290000.TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM>
Reply-To: bass@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass)
Organization: CS Dept, University of TN, Knoxville
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In article <616620722.290000.TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM> TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le) writes:
>I seem to have a problem with xterm on a ps2 running ibm aix x-windows:
>when you exit the xterm window it seem to kill the parent process and throw
>you out of x.  The standard ibm aixterm does not do it.
>It must be a bug in the aix x-windows. Does anybody has a workaround for it ?

I believe that it's because the xinit shell script starts up the xterm
with the line
	exec /usr/lpp/X11/bin/aixterm ...
which makes aixterm the parent of the whole X process group.  If you
remove the "exec", it should allow you to kill the first xterm without
shutting down everything else.
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Vance Bass			The opinions expressed here are strictly
IBM M&SG			my own, and do not necessarily
Knoxville, TN			represent IBM's views on the subject.