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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XIO error from server??
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.164952.13179@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 16:49:52 GMT
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In article <9007112049.AA12579@osage.csc.ti.com>, ekberg@ti-csl.csc.ti.COM
writes:

|> 	XIO: fatal IO error 9

Xlib will generate errors like this when it encounters fatal system
call errors.  The error 9 refers to the UNIX system error number, in
this case EBADF, a bad file descriptor.  For some reason one of the
descriptors Xlib has been reading or writing has gone bad.  I've never
seen this before.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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