Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!think!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!keith
From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 lossage on Sun
Message-ID: <8810202000.AA01250@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 88 20:00:54 GMT
References: <8810201819.AA02612@goldhill.com>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 14


> 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.

We've fixed this in R3 -- the server continues to buffer events
for deaf clients until the client reads them or the server runs
out of memory.  It used to hang on the write -- stopping the server
dead in its tracks.

						Keith Packard
						MIT X Consortium
						(617) 253-1428
						keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU