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From: dsj@GOLDHILL.COM (Dan Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 lossage on Sun
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Date: 20 Oct 88 18:19:33 GMT
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Jim, 

We're having a very hard problem using X11 on Sun3's.  In short, it
seems that if a client accumulates a lot of generated events which it
doesn't read, the server just hangs up on its end of the socket
connection.  I haven't verified that this is precisely what's happening
but it's as close as I can get.

The problem rather a serious one for us, since we are running from 
within Lisp (and are not using CLX), and do not try to read and process
events while in the debugger or in other circumstances.

I don't know if my description of the problem is adequate, but what I'm
looking for in the way of a solution is either a way to prevent the
connection from being closed, or at the very least a way to detect the
situation and then a way to re-establish the connection.

Please let us know what you think.  We're rather stumped by this one.

Thanks, 

Dan Jacobs