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From: dcr0@gte.com (David Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: "Broken Pipe" on X Server Connection
Message-ID: <10455@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 18:17:06 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA
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I am sometimes bothered by my X client mysteriously terminating with a
"broken pipe" signal, apparently arising out of the X server socket
connection.  It seems to happen when my client has sent an appreciable
number of requests to the server and has not taken the time to read
the server's responses.  But it does not happen consistently -- sometimes
everything will work, sometimes the client dies.

I'm not sure that I understand what is happening here, and -- more
important -- I'm not sure what the best way is to prevent this from
happening.  I've consulted FAQ, as well as the various X books and
documents, and either there is nothing there to explain things to me or
I have somehow overlooked the clues.

If any of you X wizards out there on the net can point me to a way to prevent
my client from dying in this manner, I will be forever grateful.

-- 
Dave Robbins                    GTE Laboratories Incorporated
drobbins@bunny.gte.com          40 Sylvan Rd.
...!harvard!bunny!drobbins      Waltham, MA 02254
CYA:  I speak only for myself; GTE may disagree with what I say.