On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:28:10PM -0500, xOr wrote: > Found a way to make blackbox block in its select() call. > > Theres a comment above it say this is possible but near impossible.. > seems not to be the case :| It does it perfecetly consistantly on my > machine if I follow the right steps. > > This is, of course, with the latest cvs version. But should work for the > last few (all?) alphas too. > Also, I am using the cvs version of bbkeys. With bbkeys 0.8.4, this > doesn't happen for me. However, it seems that blackbox blocking is still > a problem regardless. I will attempt to track down what change in bbkeys > caused it.
OK, I figured it out, you have to compile bbkeys with --enable-debug it seems. Very strange.. 0.8.4 does it then also. > heres the .xinitrc: > > bbkeys -i& > gkrellm -w & > exec blackbox > > Then, once blackbox has loaded: > launch a terminal. > In the terminal run: > % bbkeys > The X server should be entirely frozen at this point. > > gdb reports this backtrace. > > 0x402547ce in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0x402547ce in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #1 0xbffff4a4 in ?? () > #2 0x0809f5af in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff864) at main.cc:160 > > That's with debug symbols enabled.. :\ not sure why it gets a ??. > > Can anyone else reproduce this? > xOr -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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