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From: clyde@ut-emx.UUCP (Head UNIX Hacquer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm problems with SunOS 4.0
Keywords: xterm fails under SunOS 4.0
Message-ID: <4328@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 22:22:16 GMT
Organization: Moose & Squirrel Software
Lines: 42


The X11R2 xterm fails when told to use any display other than 'unix:0.0'.
This is on a SUN 3/[56]0, running SunOS 4.0.  Witness the below debugging
session...

spica> dbx xterm
...
(dbx) catch 1
(dbx) run -display spica:0.0
Running: xterm -display spica:0.0 
stopped in main at line 244 in file "main.c"
  244   	int fd1 = -1;
(dbx) c
signal HUP (hangup) in close at 0x33ace
close+8:		rts
(dbx) where
close(0x52ad0) at 0x33ace
yp_unbind(0x529f0) at 0x34063
yp_get_default_domain(0x529f0, 0xeffe980) at 0x34219
_yp_dobind(0x529f0, 0xeffe980) at 0x33eb5
yp_match(0x529f0, 0x4b887, 0xeffe9b4, 0x4, 0xeffe9cc, 0xeffe9c8) at 0x3574f
getpwent(0x3ed, 0x51ea4) at 0x2fd59
getpwent(0xeffeb10, 0xeffef14, 0x3ed) at 0x2f973
getpwuid(0x3ed) at 0x2f36d
spawn(), line 1046 in "main.c"
main(argc = 0, argv = 0xefffc0c, 0xefffc18), line 549 in "main.c"
(dbx) quit

...

I have tried building xterm with and without optimization, the X libraries
with and without optimization, dynamic and static linking, and I get the
same error.

Anyone have any ideas?  I think that the Sun YP code is busted!


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