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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Remote Xserver shutdown
Message-ID: <9103260358.AA04370@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 26 Mar 91 03:58:19 GMT
Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
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> Is their anything defined in the X protocol to get a X Server to
> commit suicide? 

No.  In some circumstances (an X terminal, for example) it doesn't even
really make sense.

The closest thing is that the protocol states than when the last
connection to the server closes, with a close-down mode of Destroy, the
server is reset.  If you're going to have the server suicide, this is
certainly the time to do it; MIT servers can, under some circumstances,
be set up to do this.

					der Mouse

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